"Can't I put on one of my clean suits?" he asked.
"No," said Mother. "When boys get on rafts and fall into the water, they always go to bed while their clothes dry."
So to bed Bobby went in the middle of the day.
Mother washed his clothes and hung them to dry in the shade of the apple tree.
Sue tied a blue ribbon on Rover's collar, and Mother gave him a plate of cold roast beef with potatoes and gravy.
XIII
Of all the horses on Cloverfield Farm, Prince was the one the children liked best.