At about four o'clock it set in for
rain, catching the party at some distance from home, so that, though
they made good speed, the dust turned into mud, and clung fast to
their shoes.
David, never the best runner, was only in time to catch Johnnie by
the skirt upon the third step of the staircase, crying out, "The
pig!" but Johnnie, tired of the subject, and in a provoking mood,
twitched away his pinafore, crying, "Bother the pig!" and rushed up
after the four who had preceded him, leaving such lumps of dirt on
the edge of every step, that when Miss Fosbrook came after with
Elizabeth she could not but declare that a shower was a costly
article.
"You see," observed Susan, "when it's such fine weather it puts one's
feet out of one's head."
While Sam, Henry, and Bessie were laughing at Susan for this speech,
little George trotted in, crying out, "Halty man come, Halty man
come; Georgie want sweetie!"
"The Gibraltar man!" cried John and Annie with one voice, and they
were at the bottom of the stairs with a bound.
"Oh, send him away, send him away. They'll spend all their money,
and there will be none left!" was David's cry; while George kept
dragging his eldest sister's frock, with entreaties of "Susie, Susie,
come.
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