The Rain Upon the Roof 



tubs. Just your trusty motor, and 

 when it is not going it speaks to you not 

 at all. True, purring down the long 

 road it has a voice of which you may 

 get very fond. Besides it minds not 

 drouths, nor heat, nor cold, if you are 

 as good to it as to your horse. And 

 yet a garage can never be a sure- 

 enough old barn, filled with the tenants 

 and the products of the fields. 



Once we kept ponies where the big 

 machine now stands, but they, like 

 their little mistress, have gone now far 

 away. A Shetland of uncommon qual- 

 ity and wisdom was the one particular 

 pet in those days; in fact a frequent 

 caller inside the cottage proper, until 

 once upon a time he got his pudgy 

 stomach wedged in between two closet 

 walls, whereupon we had something 

 of a time extricating him from a real 

 predicament. 



The cottage porch is well protected 

 from both wind and rain. Here there- 

 fore let us sit and watch the dry earth 

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