They went for a walk to their Granny Margie's house. By the time they got there, they were soaked and cold. The rain had gone right through their little shawls and through their clothes.

"You girls come in here," Granny Margie said. "You'd better not play outside on a day like this unless you've got one of our old cedar bark capes!" Rica and Michelle looked at their granny. How did she know?

The girls came in, dried off, and had some soup and bread. Wrapped up in blankets, they sat on the couch next to their Granny's wood stove. Their granny was knitting. The rain still poured down.

"When I was a young girl," their granny said, "I stayed inside on rainy days in the fall. I would make string