Annie is grateful and smart.She is smart because she wasn't allowed to go over the fence because that's what her mother told her but her mom didn't say she couldn't sit on the fence.(That's what Annie thought of).She is grateful because she when Sandra said she couldn't jump with them Clover stuck up for her and said she could.Clover was hopeful.She was hopeful because when she sat on the fence with Annie her mother saw her and clover was hopeful that she would let her stay on the fence.