Alice was at dance practice last night when another little girl scraped her hand and knocked off “Alice’s wart”. Mom first learned of this from Alice’s screams and went rushing in to the room to see Alice with blood pouring out of her hand. By the time they were home, Alice was in fine spirits, laughing about the entire incident, while Mom and I hoped that the dance floor hadn’t been messed up too badly by Alice bodily fluids. Looking at it this morning I think that not just the scab but most or all of the wart itself came off, so perhaps we have finally reduced Alice to her proper extent.
The bleeding happened because Mom had been using some extra-powerful wart dissolver from the doctor, which left a fairly hefty scab. She had also been instructed to use it only over night, and to put duct tape over it to make sure it was covered while Alice slept. Alice wasn’t too happy about this until I found some purple duct tape I had acquired for working on the beating sticks. Then everything was OK.