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Sued drought Roy was now spending more time with Sara and the boys, and less tirandfather built felt empty, sobuckets of water froarden It was hot sweaty work, but the crops were nearly four feet tall

On this , when Roy arrived on their far nonstop, he finally quit at ten in thebecause the intensity of the sun was unbearable Scooping a bucket of water through the cistern and du it over his head, Roy shook the extra water off like a dog As Roy walked to the house, to have breakfast with Sara's faht his body temperature down By the time he entered the front door, his clothes were nearly dry

"Whew, I'm bushed It's like a furnace out there"

"You want so and carried the pot and two cups to the table "Would it make a difference?"

Roy shook his head "Apparently not"

Sara earing her usual jeans, but wore a fli white blouse with short sleeves With her hair pulled into a pony tail, Roy admired how beautiful she looked, nohis le dilanced up at his mother to check her reaction Everyone else sat silently waiting Since Sara's earlier firestorm over Billy's dry-bed jar, Billy was reluctant to display it out of fear his ain, especially at Roy

Sara s to do with that Billy?"

"Well, I wanted tell Roy that I've only wet the bed three tiave me this jar"

Roy sat up in his chair "Tell ave you the jar?"

Billy tried to count the days but had trouble re Abe whispered into Billy's ear "Ten days" Billy smiled proudly

"Well now, Billy, what did I ask you to tell ed

"I asked you to keep count of the days your bed was dry You just told ht three You just said I gave you the jar ten days ago, so how many days was your bed dry?"

Abe started to help Billy, as struggling with the math, but Roy stopped Abe