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THE CHILDREN saw them covered with green grass and blue grass and brown grass; she saw wild horses with flowing manes and tails galloping across, and she saw clouds of little birds coming down to eat the seeds of the grasses.

Then she looked out through the fifth window and she saw all the snowy places of the world: she saw the reindeer scraping away the snow with their hoofs; she saw the big bear climbing up the stair of an iceberg; she saw the white foxes sitting in a circle, talking to each other, and she saw the snow goose scrape a hole in the snow and make a nest for her eggs.

She looked out through the sixth window wondering what she might see there. What she saw was worth long looking at. She saw all the gardens of the world, with flowering trees that marched away and bushes of roses that rushed at her, with beds of white lilies each having a golden star in its cup, with blue morning-glories and blue Canterbury bells and blue smock flowers, with dim moon-flowers and with exalted sun-