We do not like the wooden pillows, but we sleep soundly all night in our beds on the floor.
[HANA AND TORA]
Their Festival Days
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| merry | alcove | festival | polite |
| packed | budding | storehouse | sashes |
A beautiful garden lies back of the house where Hana and Tora live.
In Japan the people love the flowering trees and plant them in their gardens. Now it is early springtime and the plum trees are just beginning to burst into bloom.
The children ask us to go with them and look for the first plum blossoms. The pink buds are pushing out of their brown coverings. "Oh, I am so glad!" Hana says. "Soon the peach trees will bloom, and then it will be time for the Doll Festival.