1. The Woman with One Hand A tale told by the Swahili

2. Vocabulary Review Swahili - a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and the neighboring coast of Africa; “coast dwellers” A – inland dwellers S – indigenous tribe

3. prosperity - a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune A – loss; poverty S - thriving mortar – a receptacle of hard material, having a bowl-shaped cavity in which substances are reduced to powder with a pestle A – paper plate S – cereal bowl

4. pestle - a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar A – solidify S – mill; crush fare - to experience good or bad fortune, treatment, etc.; get on A – get stuck S – get through; advance

5. stealthily - a sly or furtive departure or entrance A – honest; revelation S – covert; secrete maimed – to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple A – aid, cure, heal S – batter, hurt

6. refuge – a place of shelter, protection, or safety A – homeless S – sanctuary; den emerge - to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity A – disappear; fade S – become apparent; arrive

7. gratitude - the quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful A – not thankful; disregard S – appreciative; honor scoundrel – an unprincipled, dishonorable person; villain A – respected person S – black sheep; crook