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98 It was raining, raining, raining. You should hear Sophie tell a story.
She really gets into it. You can almost feel the rain on your head when
she tells it. You can feel it, you can smell it. It’s really something.

99 Anyway, Bompie goes to pick up the car and it’s raining, raining,
raining. He’s driving home and he gets to the place where he has to cross
the creek. There’s no bridge or anything. When they’d walked that way,
or ridden the mules, they’d always just waded across it.

100 So Bompie drives the car into the creek, but the water is rushing,
rushing so fast, it’s like a big wall of water coming down at him, and

Bompie is yelling, “Hey! Giddy-up!” but the car won’t giddy-up, and that
wall of water turns the car over, and Bompie scrambles out and watches
the new car float down the stream.

101 When Bompie finally got home, he got a scolding from his father
and an apple pie from his mother.

102 “Why’d she give him an apple pie?” Brian asked Sophie.
103 “Because she was grateful that he was alive, that’s why,” Sophie said.
104 “So how do you know this story anyway?” Brian said.
105 “Hush up, Brian,” Uncle Dock said.

106 But Sophie said, “Because Bompie told it to me, that’s how I know it.”
107 You could tell Brian wanted to say something else, but he didn’t.
No one did.
108 I was sitting there thinking about Bompie getting out of that
car and his mother giving him an apple pie.

109 Today Sophie and Uncle Dock each juggled three
pretzel packets for a couple minutes! They were
so excited. I felt pretty good myself. I’m a teacher!

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