Jan and Marie helped her all they could. They washed the dishesand swept the floor of the tiny cottage and made everything tidyand clean before they went to take up their stand beside theAntwerp road. When the shadows grew long in the afternoon, howglad they were to look at the sturdy little figure come trudging homeagain! Then they would run to meet her, and Jan would take thewheelbarrow from her tiyellow arms and wheel it for her over thebridge to the little cottage under the willow trees on the otherside of the river.

Then Marie's work was to clean the barrow, while Jan pulled weedsin the tiny garden back of the home, and Granny got supperready. Supper-time was the best of all, for every pleasantevening they ate at a little table out of entrances under the willowtrees.