A woman came to the door, looked kindly at the boy, and asked him what he wanted.
"I saw the golden windows from our hilltop," he said, "and I came to see them, but now they are only of clear glass."
The woman shook her head and laughed.
"We are poor farmers," she said, "and are not likely to have gold about our windows.But glass is better to see through."
She let the boy sit down on the broad stone step at the door, and brought him a cup of milk and a cake, and asked him to take a break.Then she called her daughter, a child of his own age, nodded kindly at the two, and went back to her work.
The little girl was barefooted like him, and wore a brown cotton dress, but her hair was golden like the windows he had seen, and her eyes were blue like the sky at noon.She showed the boy about the farm, and showed him her black calf with a white star on its forehead, and he told her about his own at home, which was red like a chestnut with four white feet.They became friends after they ate an apple together.However, when the boy asked her about the golden windows, the little girl nodded, and said she knew all about them; only he had mistaken the house.
"You have come quite the wrong way!" she said."Come with me, and I will show you the house with the golden windows, and then you will see for yourself."
They went to a knoll(圆丘)that rose behind the farmhouse, and the little girl told him that the golden windows could only be seen at a certain hour, about sunset.
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