place. Soon they too became interested because they saw it was changing,
they decided to help. With many willing hands the job was soon finished
and Charlie announced that now he would catch a rainbow, then it would be
the most beautiful place around the village.
The children didn’t laugh at Charlie, but they didn’t quite believe
either. They would watch and see, true Charlie had changed the placebut
could he make it colorfulwhat was even more puzzling, could he catch a
Not many days later Charlie woke to the sound of thunder, the great
noise bounced against cliffs and echoed in the valleys. He heard drops of
rain splattering outside the door. “I’ll find a hundred rainbows today”
thought Charlie as he quickly dressed and ran out into the wet morning. He
had not gone very far when he saw rain-drops caught in a lacy pattern of a
spider web formed in the branches of a Juniper tree. Charlie looked at each
and every drop, but there were no rainbows. He looked everywhere but
couldn’t find a one- not a single one. Sadly he went back to the Hogan
and asked his mother why there were no rainbows to be found. His mother
told him he must look when his heart is happy and the sky is filled with
sunshine, rainbows can not be seen on dark unhappy days.
Charlie’s hopes of finding a rainbow had all but disappeared, then one
