The Old House (15)

The Old House (15)

A new house was built, with straight walls and big windows but not quite where the old house had stood ; it was a liitle farther back from the street.

On the site of the old house little garden was plamted, and up the walls of the houses on either side grew vines.

A fine iron fence with a gate enclosed it, and people would stop in the street to look in, for it was most attractive.

The sparrows would sit in the vines and talk and talk as sparrows do, but not about the old house, for they were too young to remember it.

Years went by and the little boy had become a gron man, a good and clever man of whom his parents could be justly proud.

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