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Go to Granny Macduff-E-N-T-com for more information. Good evening, Good evening, children.

It's Granny Maduff, ready with a story.

So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin.

Thank you. And I'll begin. In a large town filled to the brim with houses and people.

There was not enough room for everyone to have a garden,

so they had to make do with flowers in little pots.

In a corner of this large town lived a little girl and a little boy.

They were not brother and sister, but they loved each other as if they were.

They were lucky to have something more than just a few flower pots.

Their parents lived next door to one another, and each house had a little window with a large wooden flower box outside.

Each box was filled with herbs for cooking and a small rosebush, and the parents decided to put the boxers across a waterpipe which ran in between their houses, so that they reached across from one window to the other

and looked like two boxes of beautiful greenery.

Sweet peas drooped over the front, mint leaves stretched out to the side, and the rose bushes grew tall.

The boxers were very high up, and the children knew they were not to

climb upon them without permission and supervision, but they were often allowed to sit by them

upon their little stools under the rosebushers or play quietly nearby. In the winter, however, the windows were frozen shut,

and the children could not play by the boxers.

Instead, they warmed up copper pennies on the stove

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