346 . THE ANGEL.

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The Sick Boy and the little Flower.

there and the sun shone on him, and he looked at the red blood
in his three fingers, as he held them up before his face, he would
say, ‘ Yes, to-day he has been out!’ He knew the forest with its
beautiful vernal green only from the fact that the neighbour’s son
brought him the first green branch of a beech tree, and he held
that up over his head, and dreamed he was in the beech wood
where the sun shone and the birds sang. On a spring day the
neighbcur’s boy also brought him field flowers, and among these
was, by chance, one to which the root was hanging; and so it
was planted in a flower-pot, and placed by the bed, close to the
window. And the flower had been planted by a fortunate hand;