The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-07-08
Rain pwarfs.

strikes the sidewalk? If not, be sure
you do SO the next time there is a
heavy shower. AS each raindrop
strikes the sidewalk the force of its
fall makes it rebound, and when 1t
does so 1t almost looks like a wee,
wee person throwing up its arms as IL
in great surprise
Little Freddie Brown had often no.
ticed this, and he declared that when
the raindrops bounded up they not on
ly looked really and truly fairies
rain dwarfs.
One day, when there was shower,
Freddie put on his raincoat, his rub
Der cap and boots, and went out to
see If he couldn't find out more about
the rain-dwarfs. There was a nice,
quiet place in his own yard where
there was a sidewalk that went di-
rectly by the veranda, and here Fred
die sat down in the hammock and
looked for rain dwarfs.
ooh, please won't rain dwarf come
over here and talk with me?"
Just as he said this he heard two
big splashes of water right beside
him on the veranda railing. They
came so suddenly he was quite startled
and, as he looked at them, instead of
the water he expected to see, there
stood two little rain dwarfs, jumping
up and down.
They were transparent you could
look through them.
Here we are!" they cried, still
jumping.
ooh! how dye do?" said Freddie.
won't you sit down and We'll talk
together?"
"Sit down." shouted one little dwarf,
as he went on jumping. why, if we
should even stand still for single in
slant we'd break all TO pieces"
But don't you get awful tired of
jumping all the timer" asked Freddie.
do you get tired Of breathing"
questioned the other dwarf, who had
not spoken before. What queer voices
they had. 1t sounded like rain patter-
ing when they spoke.
"Why, moi" answered Freddie, in
surprise. But that's different, you
know"
mot at ALL" said both the dwarfs
together, shutting and opening rapidly
their wee, twinkling silver eyes until
Freddie couldn't help laughing.
Where is your homer" asked Fred
die.
Everywhere" said one dwarf.
Sometimes in the sky sometimes in
the ocean and sometimes we're dane
ing on the ground
Dear mel" said the little boy, 81
wish l could be rain dwarf 1t must
be lots of fun"
'It's easy enough to become one"
replied one of the wee men. "All you
have to do is to shut your right eye,
open your left, jump up and down and
say:
Rain, rain, come today,
And never, never go away"
Freddie got out of the hammock and
began jumping. while saying,
Rain, rain, come today,
And never, never go away.
keeping his right eye shut and his left
eye open.
When he first began to say it and
to jump, he felt how solid and heavy
he was; but the more he jumped the
lighter he became. Then he felt him.
self growing shorter and shorter, I'M
til he found he was no taller than the
dwarfs on the veranda railing, on
which he was standing, or rather
jumping, much to his surprise. In
fact, he had become rain dwarf, too!
"Hooray!" he shouted and he and
the other two dwarfs took hold of
hands and jumped down on the side
walk, where there were hundreds of
rain dwarfs, dancing and throwing up
their arms in great glee.
Freddie was sure that he had never
had such a good time in all his life.
When he was nothing but little boy
he used to get tired after jumping and
running a while; but now the more he
Jumped and danced about the more
he felt like it.
Pretty soon the sun began shining,
though it was still raining. 1t seemed
to Freddie that the rain dwarfs were
jumping more lightly, and they looked
strange and misty. He began to feel
very queer and so light that it wasn't
exactly pleasant.
Then the rain stopped entirely, and
he found he was jumping no longer,
but that he was floating up, up, drawn
by a very hot sunbeam that had turned
him to nothing but vapor.
It was not long before he found
himself above the treetops, then above