Show CROCKEY JOY adventures nr by HETTY flirty 1 copyright ruth meets the Thunder joy RUTHS chis baby brother was asleep in his crib ruth had bee been n left to take care of 0 him white while her mother went vent on an errand ile iio lay as aa six and quiet as the toy dog which lie he had taken aken to bed bad with him lie does not need watching then tier her mind won wan deredA ler eMlie found herself looking at a of sunshine which flooded through the window in the au sunshine tiny bits tit of dust were dancing 1 I wonder what becomes of all those dust specks whispered ruth huth to herself at least site she thought that she was whispering to herself until front from right beside tier lier cattle an answer ril ill show you said tile the kindly old voice tor for it was lie he who had heard her this time the crock crack enjoy curried carried two immense balls of cord which were wrapped on oil bis big reels like ruth lind had seen the boys use when they new flow kites on the ends end of ills his cord were two anchors before cluth could even een ask tile lie Crockey joy liow how this cord wils to ile be used she and tile the had shrunk so t tant allt they wore were no bigger than the dust atoms which she lint had seen flontina g in the sunshine the Crockey joy lint had just finished hooking tho the anchors lit in nn an opening g between two floor boards when it a slight breeze camo came rustling through tile window away awai they blew like kites on a windy lay only instead of having some home one on the ground letting out tile the cord to them they unreeled it themselves up and up till they went higher than the housetops higher than the church steeple us as high as the clouds them belve they soured soared its about to rain said the crock enjoy and and I 1 want you ion to watch carefully and see just juat how the rain la Is made imade cluth wits very much surprised a moment later when site she saw that the clouds were not solid as site she lint had always w as 1 s imagined instead thoy were of tiny dust pieces like HIM those she iid seen floating in the sunlight clinging to these dust pieces wore shiny globules glo bules of water now the cloud she was looking at wits was soaking wet look now I 1 look quick I 1 cried the Crockey joy there right in front of you ou sails the storm boat with cartain captain Thunder joy in command dooin Ho oin I 1 went tile thunder gun tho the storm broke the lightning lla hashed llod water streamed from the clout cloud as though it were a great saturated sponge which some giant hand was squeezing ruth know knew sho she must hurry burry home or fahe would get soaking wet so she reeled in the kite cord as fast ins as slie she could in a few seconds she was back lit in tier her honic home sitting right where she had been when the Crockey joy came to see tier lier were splashing on her face and tier her middy blouse was damp site she jumped up tip and closed the window and us as she did the screen door slammed and site she heard mother coming up the stairs im glad alad I 1 can tell mother about the M adow being open and rain dashing in instead of about my trip to cloudland cloud lund and getting wet that way thought as slie site ran her tinkers lingers through tier lier bobba hilr ond and bru brushed sheI several moist bolst ringlets back from her fore forehead henL |