9 Ch9-Fit as a Fiddle

Chapter 9 Fit as a Fiddle Luckily for us, nobody got tagged by Miss Small on the way back to home base. Luckily for us, that is, but not so lucky for Miss Small. She was still lying there on the ground under the tree. So we all ran back to her. "Are you okay?" we all asked as we

gathered around her. "My leg," she moaned, and there was pain all over her face. That crybaby Emily started crying. So did a few other kids. To be honest, I almost felt like crying myself. But I didn't. Instead I ran to get our school nurse, Mrs. Cooney. Mrs. Cooney came running out of the school with a first-aid kit. "Oh, dear!" Mrs. Cooney said when she saw Miss Small lying under the tree. She got down on her hands and knees to examine Miss Small. "You should put a Band-Aid on her leg and kiss it," Michael told Mrs. Cooney.

"That's what my mom does when I get hurt." "Your mom is weird," I told Michael "She's going to need more than a Band- Aid and a kiss," Mrs. Cooney told us. "This leg is broken." Mrs. Cooney called for an ambulance on her cell phone, and it arrived just a couple of minutes later. Some guys got

out, and they put Miss Small on a stretcher and carried it into the ambu- lance. We asked them to put their siren on when they drove to the hospital, but they wouldn't. It was still cool anyway, having an ambulance right on the play- ground. As soon as we got back to class, we all wrote get-well cards to Miss Small. They

must have worked, because just a few days later, she was back at school. She had a big cast on her leg and crutches to help her walk. And she was smiling. I thought Fizz Ed would be canceled for a few weeks until Miss Small got better. But the day after Miss Small was back, Miss Daisy told us to line up for Fizz Ed. When we got to the gym, Miss Small was standing there with her crutches, waiting for us. "I'm fit as a fiddle!" she said. "Let's have fun!" Even though she was hobbling around, Miss Small still wanted to play games. We

played some more Ghost in the Graveyard, but nobody was allowed to climb the tree this time. Miss Small also