Be Well, Beware by Jessie Haas

Author:Jessie Haas
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497662650
Publisher: Open Road Media Teen & Tween

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE RAIN COMES steadily. How can Lily keep Beware from getting soaked? In horse catalogs she has seen rain sheets for horses, but Gramp has only this old chewed blanket. If it gets wet, there is nothing else to put on Beware.

Lily explains to Gran, and Gran says, “Do you have to walk her?”

“Yes.” Walking is the only thing Lily can do for Beware, and she will not let rain stop her.

“You could cut open a garbage bag and spread it over her, I suppose,” Gran says. Then she looks at Beware and shakes her head. “No, you’d need two or three, and I don’t know what’s to keep them on.”

Gramp has a blue tarp folded up in the barn. Lily looks at it, but it is much too big and very stiff and rattly. It would scare Beware to have the tarp put over her.

Lily tries to think. What else is big like a sheet, but not too big, and waterproof?

Oh!

No, Gran will never let her. Gran is not like Gramp and Mom and Lily. She doesn’t love horses.

Lily turns around. Gran is leaning over the stall door. “I know, I know,” she says, and she strokes Beware’s forehead. Beware closes her eyes.

“Gran,” Lily says. “Gran, can I take the shower curtain for her?”

Gran turns sharply. She has “No, of course not!” all over her face. But after a moment she says, “Oh, go ahead! I suppose I should be thankful it’s not my best bed quilt you want!”

Lily and Gran splash up to the house. Gran helps Lily take down the shower curtain that goes all the way around the bathtub. The curtain was new this spring. It has big pink flowers on it. Gran looks at it for a moment. Then she pushes it into Lily’s hands. “Take it! I’ll call your mother at the store and have her bring home another bag of cough drops.”

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