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greenish window-panes, on Grandmother and
the nine tow-headed children, and all.
Oleana had been married twenty-one years
and in all that time had never owned a clock.
Through the long darkness of the winter
after-noons and evenings, when the snow lay thick
and heavy on the pine-trees round ahout, and
the roads were blocked in every direction with
high drifts, there they would be in the hut;—
Oleana and Grandmother and the nine
tow-heads and the husband without much sense
under his hat,—and not even the elever Oleana
would have the remotest idea what o’clock it
was. In summer she looked at the sun to tell
the time, and on clear winter nights at the
stars; though to see these, she had to get up in
the cold and breathe on the thickly frosted
win-dow-pane to make a space to peep through.
One day while I was at Henrik-hut talking
with Oleana, it occurred to me that we
summer-boarder-children might put our money
to-gether and buy a clock for Oleana. The
grown-up people wanted to help, and so we got
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