WHY do you sit there on the floor so quiet and silent, tell me, mother dear?  
The rain is coming in through the open window, making you all wet, and you don't mind it.
 
Do you hear the gong four? It is time for my brother to come home from school.
 
What has happened to you that you look so strange?
 
Haven't you got a letter from father to-day?
 
I saw the postman bringing letters in his bag for almost everybody in the town.
 
Only, father's letters he keeps to read himself. I am sure the postman is a man.
 
But don't be unhappy about that, mother dear.
 
To-morrow is market day in the next village. You ask yo............