THE PRISONER.
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“Well, what do you want ?”

“T want it to stop raining.”

“ But it won’t stop. It keeps right on, you see, pouring and
pouring. And I guess it’s going to do a world of good.
Farmer Elwood told me yesterday that the ground was as dry
as dust; that the wells were falling, and the crops suffering.
He’s very thankful for this rain, I have no doubt, and is glad,
while you are sorry; and I am thinking he has more cause for
gladness than you have for sorrow.”

Harvey grew quiet as his mother talked.

“But it is so hard to be kept in the house, mother, when a

boy wants to be out of doors.”
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