Chapter 121
Under the Willow-TreeTHE region round the little town of Kjoge is very bleak
and cold. The town lies on the sea shore, which is always
beautiful; but here it might be more beautiful than it is, for on
every side the fields are flat, and it is a long way to the forest.
But when persons reside in a place and get used to it, they can
always find something beautiful in it,—something for which they
long, even in the most charming spot in the world which is not
home. It must be owned that there are in the outskirts of the town
some humble gardens on the banks of a little stream that runs on
towards the sea, and in summer these gardens look very pretty. Such
indeed was the opinion of two little children, whose parents were
neighbors, and who played in these gardens, and fo
