Story of the Foreign Fairy Chapter 57

You remember Ole the Tower Keeper! I have told you about my two visits to him. ①

Now I will tell you about my third visit, but it was not the last.

Generally speaking, I always go to the tower to see him during the Chinese New Year. But this time it was a moving day, for that was a very unpleasant day in the streets. There was a lot of rubbish, broken pots, and dirty things in the streets, not to mention the hay that people threw outside to make beds. You have to walk between these things. As soon as I walked over, I saw several children playing on a pile of dirty things. They play sleeping games. They feel that this is the best place to play this kind of game. They snuggled into a pile of grass that made their bed, pulling an old piece of wallpaper over them to use as a coverlet.

"What a pleasure!" they said. But I couldn't take it anymore. I hurriedly walked away and ran to Ole.

①Please refer to Andersen's fairy tale "Ole the Tower Keeper".