A terrible thunderstorm occurs the night Jay Berry arrives home from town. The thunder is loud and scary. Daisy, afraid of storms, asks to sit in Jay Berry’s room for companionship. She mentions Thor, the god of thunder, and when Jay Berry does not recognize the name, she chastises him for not reading more widely. Daisy says her leg is very painful because of the storm. Jay Berry feels sympathy for her and offers the liniment bottle, but Daisy says no remedy helps anymore. She mentions having seen the Old Man of the Mountains from her window just before coming down the hall. Jay Berry is relieved to hear that he was smiling, which Daisy indicates means good luck on their home instead of bad. After the storm calms and Daisy leaves for bed, Jay Berry has a strange dream in which the Old Man of the Mountains must point him in the direction of home because he and Rowdy are lost.

At breakfast, Daisy brings up a time that was as exciting to her: when Jay Berry fell down the well and he “was swimming like a muskrat down there” until rescued (190).