 
 <prompt> **CHAPTER XIV**

**DICK AND SAM FOR CHICAGO**

"Songbird, quick, go bring water!" 

"Oh, Sam, make I bring smelling salts?" Grace shout. 

"I think water go do, Grace. Come stand for this side, make those other girls no fit see Nellie," the boy talk. "No need make dem sabi everything." 

Grace understand and she and Sam cover Nellie and carry am go campus bench. Then Songbird show with cup of water from well. As e hand am over, Nellie open her eyes. 

"Oh! I--I--wetin happen?" she talk softly. "Oh, I remember now!" And pain show for her face. 

"Drink small water, dear," her sister talk, and hold the cup. Nellie sip small and Grace clean her forehead with water wey Sam give. Soon the girl sit up straight. 

"I--I dey okay now," she talk softly. "E be like say na shock. Oh, Sam, you think say Tom dey go Alaska for real?" 

"E be like say so, Nellie," he answer. "I go yarn you everything, if you go waka go down the road, commot from those other students." And as dem waka commot slowly, Sam and Songbird yarn their tori, the two girls dey listen well well. 

"E dey terrible, awful!" Grace talk. "Poor Tom, e fit don lose him mind!" 

"Na only explanation be that," Sam answer. "E no go fit do that kind thing if e dey him right senses." 

"Oh, but e fit lose him mind completely," Nellie talk with fear. "I don read about such cases for newspapers. Person go just waka go, forget who e be, or where e come from, and all that! Wetin if Tom go Alaska and that kind thing happen to am! Chai, we fit no fit find am again!" And tears begin dey roll down Nellie face. 

**Answers:**
1. Nellie faint.
2. Grace and Nellie na sisters.
3. Sam order Songbird make e bring water.
4. Grace suggest smelling salts?
5. Yes, dem hide Nellie.
6. Dem hide am so that other students no go know wetin dey happen.
7. Dem carry am go campus bench.
8. Tom dey go Alaska.
9. Yes, na the reason why Nellie dey upset.
10. Yes, Songbird bring the water. <response>: ```1. Nellie
2. sisters
3. Sam
4. Grace
5. yes
6. so the girls no fit see am
7. one bench for campus
8. Tom
9. yes
10. yes``` 