




          Slappy got to work and painted the sun much hotter. That drove 
     away the beach crowd. But the man and woman on the sign got up and 
     walked off, too! 
          Folks complained about getting sunburn just from walking past the 
     sign. Then the building across the street caught fire, and the fire 
     trucks had to come and put it out. 
          Hotter didn't work, so Slappy tried cooler. He painted a storm 
     cloud across the sun. But darned if that painted cloud didn't start to 
     thunder and make lightning! 
          Then the storm broke. It rained so hard that the sign overflowed 
     and flooded Main Street. 
          The Sunshine Travel Agency made Slappy tear down the whole 
     billboard and hack it to pieces. He would've had to burn it, too, if 
     it hadn't been waterlogged. 




