`` It would be a golden , mellow land , with purple hazes over the bluffs , in a normal fall , '' assured Kate . `` Even now if the sun were just to shine out for a day and a good ` chinook ' blow you 'd see a surprising change . I feel like chanting continually that old rhyme I learned in the first primer , ` Rain , rain , go away , Come again some other day : -- some other day next summer -- Phil and Katie want to play . ' Philippa , dear girl , do n't look so dismal . It 's bound to clear up sometime . '' `` I wish the ` sometime ' would come soon , then , '' I said , rather grumpily . `` You know it has n't really rained for three days , '' protested Kate . `` It 's been damp and horrid and threatening , but it has n't rained . I defy you to say that it has actually rained . '' `` When it 's so wet underfoot that you ca n't stir out without rubber boots it might as well be wet overhead too , '' I said , still grumpily . `` I believe you 're homesick , girl , '' said Kate anxiously . `` No , I 'm not , '' I answered , laughing , and feeling ashamed of my ungraciousness . `` Nobody could be homesick with such a jolly good fellow as you around , Kate . It 's only that this weather is getting on my nerves a bit . I 'm fit for treasons , stratagems , and spoils . If your chinook does n't come soon , Kitty , I 'll do something quite desperate . '' `` I feel that way myself , '' admitted Kate . `` Real reckless , Phil . Anyhow , let 's put on our despised rubber boots and sally out for a wade . '' `` Here 's Jim Nash coming on horseback down the trail , '' I said .
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