sleeve, I would buy you a pink parasol and a folding fan."
"And if some of it were mine," answered Ah Leen, I would give it to my baby brother." And she went on to tell the little old woman that that eve there was to be a joyful time at her father's house, for her baby brother was to have his head shaved for the first time, and everybody was coming to see it done and would give her baby brother gifts of gold and silver. Her father and her mother, also, and her big brother and her big sister, all had gifts to give. She loved well her baby brother. He was so very small and so very lively, and his fingers and toes were so pink. And to think that he had lived a whole moon, and she had no offering to prove the big feeling that swelled and throbbed in her little heart for him.
Ah Leen sighed very wistfully.
Just then a brisk breeze blew over the trees, and as it passed by, six of the silver leaves floated to the ground.
"Oh! Oh!" cried little Ah Leen. She pattered over to where they had fallen and picked them up.
Returning to the old woman, she displayed her treasures.
"Three for you and three for me!" she cried
