Those that jumped into the brook would help to give a good cool drink to all who were thirsty.
Then Father Sun came out from behind the gray clouds.
“Come, little raindrops, down on earth,” he said. “Those of you that are not busy, or are not needed there, must come home. You have important work to do elsewhere.”
And, like the good father that he was, he gathered up all that he could find and put them into pretty white and blue boats. And the wind gently sailed them across the sky.
Then the Rain Fairies and the Sun Fairies joined hands until they made a beautiful arch from earth to heaven.
We call this arch the rainbow. The gay colors are the pretty dresses of the fairies.
Now the birds of the forest came forth from their nests. They fluttered their little wings and sent the raindrops which had rested on them down to the flowers and the grasses.
Then they flew into the tree tops, where Father Sun could see them. And, as though to make up for lost time, they sang more sweetly than they did on clear days.
How their songs gladdened the forest!