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7 Waiting at the Window

Do you enjoy the rain? What do you do when it rains and you can’t step out? What would
you like to do if you could step out in the rain? Read on to find out what the child in this
poem does when it rains.

These are my two drops of rain

Waiting on the windowpane.

I am waiting here to see
Which the winning one will be.

Both of them have different names.
One is John and one is James.

All the best and all the worst

Comes from which of them is first.

1
James has just begun to ooze .
He’s the one I want to lose.

John is waiting to begin.
He’s the one I want to win.

James is going slowly on.
Something sort of sticks to John.

John is moving off at last.
James is going pretty fast.

John is rushing down the pane.

James is going slow again.

2
James has met a sort of smear .
John is getting very near.

Is he going fast enough?
(James has found a piece of fluff.)

1 ooze: slowly come out of something 2 smear: an oily or dirty mark
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