![]() "Well, it's just a custom, you see, Ollie," he said. She never could resist them.īut my question hadn't been answered yet. Then he raised his curly red head and gave Mama one of those smiles of his. Didn't I tell you to stay out of the mud?" "There's a perfect corner for an Indian tent back there, and I saw a great place for a tree house, and-" My brother Hans came bounding out from somewhere in back, bursting with excitement. To the tree was tied a red rag that waved merrily in the cold wind, like a flag. ![]() The roof of the house was flat, and a small spruce tree seemed to be sprouting from its top. ![]() The house looked to me as if it were climbing up the side of the hill. I pointed up at the wooden scaffolding around a three-story house. It was winter 1932, and I was standing with my parents in the mud where a street was going to be. "Why is there a tree on top of the house?" ![]()
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