“Mrs. Olinlski hugged her upper arms and wondered if maybe it was nerves and not the quartering wind blowing from the ceiling vents that was causing her shivers. She watched with baited (and visible) breath as the commissioner placed his hand into a large clear glass bowl. His college class ring knocked bottom. (Had the room been two degrees colder, the glass would have shattered). He withdrew a piece of paper, unfolded it, and read. “What is the meaning of the word calligraphy and from which language does it derive?” A buzzer sounded.”
“When Pat arrived at the twins’ birthday party, with Sarah-Ann and the chocolates, Katy smiled properly for the first time that day. She hugged Sarah-Ann and Pat and Jess, and said, ‘Thank you’ to them all. It was a lovely party.”
“Grandpa found Stina sitting on a rock, crying. ‘I came out to see the storm,’ she said. ‘But I don’t like it.’ Grandpa picked her up and hugged her. ‘Dear child,’ he said, ‘this is no way to see a storm You’re soaking wet and so am I. Let’s go inside and start all over again.’ “
“Grandma Poss held her breath - and waited. ‘It’s worked! It’s worked!’ she cried. And she was right. Hush could be seen from head to tail. Grandma Poss hugged Hush, and they both danced ‘Here We Go Round Lamington Plate’ till early in the morning.”
″ ‘Grandmamma, what great arms you have got!’
‘That is the better to hug thee, my dear’
‘Grandmama, what great legs you have got!’
‘That is to run the better, my child’
‘Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!’
‘That is to hear the better, my child’
‘Grandmamma, what great eyes you have got!’
‘It is to see the better, my child’. ”