The Exhibition in the Barn by Lucy Ellen Guernsey

TOM, Charley, and Sue were making a visit to their cousins, and it was rather trying to have a rainy day. In the first place, it was in the spring, and they had expected to have a delightful ramble after early flowers that very morning; in the next place, the house was a small one, and there were eight children besides the older people who lived in it, so there was not room for any very extensive in-door plays. Who wanted to sit down and read in all that hubbub, or to play "What is my thought like? " or "Capping Poetry," when the snow was all gone?

Whatever feelings were entertained by the young people, they were fully, though secretly, reciprocated by the older ones, who thought with dismay of what their ears must endure before the sun shone again.