SECOND STORY: A Little Boy and a Little
GirlIn a large town, full of houses and people, there is not
room for everybody to have even a little garden, therefore they are
obliged to be satisfied with a few flowers in flower-pots. In one
of these large towns lived two poor children who had a garden
something larger and better than a few flower-pots. They were not
brother and sister, but they loved each other almost as much as if
they had been. Their parents lived opposite to each other in two
garrets, where the roofs of neighboring houses projected out
towards each other and the water-pipe ran between them. In each
house was a little window, so that any one could step across the
gutter from one window to the other. The parents of these children
had each a large wooden box in which
