American Progress by Veda Boyd Jones

Author:Veda Boyd Jones [Jones, Veda Boyd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60742-008-8
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2005-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

Rain, rain, rain, rain,

Splashing down my windowpane.

Just then, Vi called up the stairs, “Isn’t your trip about over? It’s getting lonely down here.”

“Coming,” Carrie answered. As she turned to go, the patter of rain sounded against the windows. She’d have to finish her rain poem later.

“Listen to that, Vi,” she said as she descended back into the attic. “Doesn’t the rain sound lovely? Rain makes the attic seem even more cozy.”

“Cozy, yes,” Vi agreed. “But it also means the boys’ ball game will be rained out.”

Carrie wrinkled her nose. “You’re right. I hadn’t thought of that.”

“If they come up here, they have to play what we’re playing. No changing. Agreed?”

“Agreed,” Carrie said with as much firmness in her voice as she could muster. Actually, it was difficult to be firm at all with Garvey. Her cousin was forever cutting up and acting silly.

The rain grew from fat drops to a steady drumming on the roof, making little rivulets on the windows.

“Let’s both be rich ladies,” Vi suggested, changing the subject.

“Oh, let’s,” Carrie agreed. “The governess will come and care for the children, and we’ll go to the opera. A special car will come with a chauffeur to take us.”

Vi giggled. “Like Mr. Carruthers next door?”

Carrie waved her hand. “Oh, pooh. His old car is nothing to the one that will come to fetch us.”

Vi laughed even more. “Ours will be like the Pierce Arrow that Greta Garbo drives.”

Violet loved to read movie magazines, and that’s where she had seen a photo of Greta Garbo in her custom-designed Pierce Arrow.

“Yes! That’s it,” Carrie agreed. “Like Greta’s car.”

A slam of a door and heavy footsteps on the attic stairs interrupted their game. Vi rolled her eyes. “Guess who?” she said.

“Here we are,” came Garvey’s voice before his head appeared at the stairwell. “Now the fun can begin.”

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