“Now Grandma sits in it and talks with people going by in the daytime. Mama sits down and watches the news on TV when she comes home from her job. After supper I sit with her and she can reach right up and turn out the light if I fall asleep on her lap.”
″‘The uses of the sticks are various,’ she ended, as she scrunched up the last piece of the bright red sweet. ‘One can use them as nail cleaners, or for sticking in the ground, or even for sticking into people.‘”