She leaned her head heavily on her mother's shoulder, for she was not fully awake, and clung around her neck with both arms.

Finally, in answer to the chorus of questions that came from all sides, she roused enough to answer.
"It lightened, that's why we hid.

Mammy Chloe thed if you go get in a dark plathe on a pile of featheths, no lightnin' can hurt you.

Mammy Chloe always puth uth in the middle of her feather-bed.

Tho me and thithter took a thofa pillow and got under the thofa and shut our eyeth tight.