# Lesson 49

- Source: McGuffey's First Reader (first-reader.gutenberg.org), Public domain, William Holmes McGuffey, 1879, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Grades 1 and 2
- Subjects: Stories, Nature
- Topics: rain, drops, little, play, sound, think
- Length: 104 words, about 1 min
- Original: <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14640>
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rain out'side of'ten pit'ter say win'dow

sound pat'ter drops some'times on'ly mu'sic

I wish, Mamma you would tell me where the rain comes from. Does it come from the sky? And when the little drops pitter-patter on the window do you think they are playing with me? I can not work or read for I love to listen to them. I often think their sound is pretty music. But the rain keeps children at home and sometimes I do not like that, then. The little raindrops only say, "Pit, pitter, patter, pat; While we play on the out-side, Why can't you play on that?" \]

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