A few hours after Garnet Linden had found a silver thimble in the dried-up river bed, the rains came to end the long drought on the farm, and with the rain came safety for the crops and for the stock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet couldn't help feeling that the thimble was a kind of talisman. It certainly brought excitement.

Garnet's friends are a lively assortment of country personalities and many of her adventures stem from the natural happenings of a farm summer; barn-raising and threshing and harvest.

But Garnet and Citronella have their own private escapades, as two girls will who own a tree house, and can go into town by themselves if Mr. Freebody will give them a lift in his truck. And all summer long Garnet is feeding her pig, Timmy, with cod liver oil and choice scraps, fattening him for the County Fair in September.

Miss Enright has spent many of her summers on a Wisconsin farm and is, therefore, well equipped to write and picture what happened to Garnet.

From the dust jacket