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The vans arrive at dawn , and the square wakes up around them . This hilltop fair usually draws the biggest crowds . But the sky is the wrong color . Mira and Tomi meet at the fountain , both watching the clouds . Hook little fingers , tap twice . " Every town has a fountain , " says Tomi . " This one is already full . " By mid - morning , the rain arrives : no lightning , no drama , just steady water that empties the square by noon . Eva covers the cheese with her hat and an oilcloth ; two rounds get wet . " I can see exactly where this is going , " she says . Mira opens her green notebook . " Fact : people shelter from rain in covered doorways , not under their own umbrellas . " Every covered doorway faces a stall . The customers are six meters back , waiting for the rain to ease . The cheese - stall awning has gone slack and is dumping water onto the cheese . Tomi rigs a canvas - and - string gutter that sends the runoff onto the cobblestones , and saves two of the four wet rounds . They write signs , CHEESE : WARM AND DRY , and stand in the doorways holding them . They sell far less than a sunny day , but not nothing . Old Berti sits under a huge canvas hat , apparently asleep . The reader sees what the kids can not : his oilcloth , draped across his chairback , steers rainwater away from the toys and into a drain . He set it up before the rain came . At pack - up , Old Berti says quietly to Tomi : " Coast fairs do n't get rain like this . " He looks across the square at Mira . Mira opens her notebook one last time , writes something , and does not show it to Tomi . " See you at the next fair . " " See you at the next fair . "
