CHAPTER XXVIII
TELLS ABOUT HOW DAME NATURE CHANGED HER MIND
Maybe you'll laugh at that stopping a shower with sodas. But once on my way home from school I stopped in Vander's Drug Store to get a soda, and wait for the rain to stop. When I was finished it hadn't stopped, so I got another soda— a strawberry. Even after that the rain didn't stop and I was just going to start out anyway, when a man who was in there said, "Why don't you try one more?" So I did—a pineapple—and by the time I had finished that, the rain had stopped. So that proves it.
But that day I'm telling you about, I guess it wouldn't have stopped even if we had stayed in Catskill a couple of hours drinking sodas. We got on one of the benches in the waiting room of the wharf where the Albany boats stop, and watched it rain, It was so thick that we could hardly see across the river. Merry Christmas, didn't it come down! We saw the big day boat go
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