Chapter 33
The Golden TreasureTHE drummer's wife went into the church. She saw the new
altar with the painted pictures and the carved angels. Those upon
the canvas and in the glory over the altar were just as beautiful
as the carved ones; and they were painted and gilt into the
bargain. Their hair gleamed golden in the sunshine, lovely to
behold; but the real sunshine was more beautiful still. It shone
redder, clearer through the dark trees, when the sun went down. It
was lovely thus to look at the sunshine of heaven. And she looked
at the red sun, and she thought about it so deeply, and thought of
the little one whom the stork was to bring, and the wife of the
drummer was very cheerful, and looked and looked, and wished that
the child might have a gleam of sunshine given to it
