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“What‟ll I do if I have a nightmare?”she asked.

Nightmare: a bad dream.

Kezia asked Alice that if she had a bad dream, what would she do all
alone.

“I often have nightmares and then Granny takes me into her bed—I
can‟t stay in the dark—it all gets „whispery‟…”

Kezia explained to Alice that whenever she had nightmares, she would
go to her Grandmother and she would sleep with her. So, she said that
she could not stay all alone in the dark because she would be scared.
She could hear different kinds of whispering sounds which made her feel
that there was someone around her.

“You just go to sleep, child,” said Alice, pulling off her socks, “and don‟t

you scream and wake your poor Pa.”

Kezia’s father was sleeping in the next room and Alice told Kezia to
sleep quietly. She removed Kezia’s socks and asked her not to scream.

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