"No, we're not," answered the child. "Thunder storms only come when you're bad."
"What's that?" asked Peter.
"A thunderstorm's God showing his ankle," explained Pat.
This did not seem a dogma altogether iron clad and yet it worried Peter.
"Thunder's got nothing to do with you're being bad," he told Pat. "If that was it we'd have thunder all the time. Thunder's nothing to be afraid of. It's just somebody up the sky saying 'Booh' at you for fun."
"How do you know that? Did you see him?"
"Yes," said Pat stoutly.
That made the question difficult to argue.
"All right," continued Peter. "Call him God if you want to. Anyhow, when it's thunder he's just saying 'Booh' at you and if you get scared you haven't got any sense. Remember that's what thunder is. Just somebody named God saying 'Booh.'"