Then he felt something hard and cold on his thumb.

"I can't really use the top hand and put too much pressure on my thumb."

His ring sat on her thumb; too big, but it would do.

He smiled and put the ring back on his thumb.

Then she got I don't know how many stitches on her thumb.

He looked at some of their things, and picked up a little knife, trying the edge on his thumb.

"It's not by any means connected with that mark on your thumb?"

But for a while about then she started putting designs on her poor thumbs.

The way they were sitting on their thumbs a few minutes ago, I'd doubted it.

"And I slipped on my thumb into the first row."