When I want it pleasant it’s always the way;

It rains, rains, rains!”

“To-day I can finish my book,” said Dean;

“It’s the jolliest one I ever have seen;

For it rains, rains, rains!”

“It will fill up the swimming-hole, p’r’aps,” said Ted.

“I can dive like a frog if it’s over my head;

Glad it rains, rains, rains!”

“To-day,” said Herr Steuber, “my plants I’ll set out;

I feared they would die because of the drought.