Sunny Boy in the Country Part 19

"He's trying to tell us a storm is coming," replied Grandpa. "There, there, Bruce, don't be so silly. We're going home, and you can hide under the barn floor and never even see the lightning."

The sun, which had been s.h.i.+ning down through the trees, had gone under a cloud, and the branches about them began to rustle as the wind swayed them.

"I'm afraid we'll have a heavy storm," said Grandma anxiously. "We have had such a long dry spell and it's been so hot. I'd hate to be caught among these trees in a heavy wind."

"Don't worry, Mother," replied Grandpa. "We'll be home before the first drops come. Shall I carry you, Sunny?"

Sunny, who was running to keep up with them, shook his head. He did not want to be carried like a baby. Soon it grew darker and darker and the wind began to blow in earnest. He pressed closer to Grandpa.

"Don't be afraid," said Grandpa kindly. "We'll be out of the woods in another minute and then we'll scoot across the brook and be home."

He put out a hand to help Grandmother, when with a tremendous blast a gust of wind made them all stop to catch their breath. They saw it bend a tree at the edge of the clearing and heard the tree snap loudly as it broke and fell across the path. Bruce howled--he was nervous, poor animal.

"Mercy!" gasped Grandma. "I said we'd have a bad storm. There! I felt a raindrop. My father always said the worst was over when the rain began."

They hurried on, anxious not to get wet, and Sunny Boy was the first to reach the fallen tree.

"We have to go over it," he shouted back, and began to scramble up, holding on to the branches.

"Grandpa," they heard him scream a moment later. "Hurry! Come quick!

Here's my kite! The Lib'ty Bonds kite!"

Sure enough, there it was, just as it had caught in the tree--the missing kite. And still pasted to the strips of wood were Grandpa's two five-hundred-dollar Liberty Bonds!

"No wonder we couldn't find 'em!" cried Sunny Boy, dancing with excitement. "I knew I saw it fall in a tree! Won't Daddy be glad!"

"We're all glad," declared Mother, kissing him warmly. "Isn't it just wonderful to think that the same little boy who lost the bonds should also find them?"

"It's been a lucky picnic, surely," said Grandpa. "After a hard rain those bonds wouldn't have been worth much to any one."

"Well, they won't be worth much now if we all stand here and get soaked,"

announced Grandma practically.

At that they all took hold of hands and ran across the meadow, over the bridge of stones, and up to the porch. And the moment they were safely under shelter, how the rain did pour down! Just as if, Sunny said, it had been waiting for them to get home before it showed what it really could do.

"Mother," asked Sunny Boy that night, as he sat on the foot-board of the bed in his blue pajamas and watched her brush her hair. They were all tired after the excitement of the picnic and the finding of the bonds, and every one was going to bed at Sunny's bed time, even Grandpa.

"Mother, will I take my sand-box to the seash.o.r.e?"

"Oh, no, precious," she a.s.sured him. "Why, you'll have a whole beach of sand to play in. And the bathing suit I bought for you to wear here and which you haven't had on because the brook water is so cold! Perhaps Daddy will teach you to swim."

"Yes," agreed Sunny Boy absently. And he tumbled back on the pillows, thinking about the seash.o.r.e and the ocean which he had never seen.

It was not very long after the picnic that Mother and Sunny Boy left Brookside and went to visit Aunt Bessie in her white cottage that faced the ocean. And if you want to hear about the good times Sunny Boy had there and what he thought the waves were saying to him when he got up in the night to listen, you'll have to read "Sunny Boy at the Seash.o.r.e."

THE END

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