Prue and Tiger were accustomed to the stray animals their older sister, Rosanna, was always bringing home to care for on the family's small farm in the south of England. They knew that Rosanna, who had been looking after them since their mother's death, was soft-hearted, but it was too much when she thrust on the household her newest stray—an impossible and difficult boy named Arthur.

When Arthur broke his leg and was put in a cast, he became doubly burdensome. And because Prue and Tiger felt responsible for having caused the accident, the need to amuse him during his many weeks in the cast weighed on them even more heavily than did his sullen demands. Unhappily, the problem of Arthur coincided with a more serious concern—a challenge to their ownership of a portion of their beloved farm. 

With the humor and realism that mark Hetty and Storm from the West, Barbara Willard tells of the eventual solution to both of the family's problems in an absorbing story that evokes the English countryside. 

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