TWO LITTLE GIRL IN THE BIG HOUSE

 Once upon a time there was a nobleman who was married to a sweet and beautiful lady. They had 2 child, a little girl named Nathasha & Najla'a , and they lived in a big house in the country. What a fine house that was! there were more rooms in it than you could count on your fingers and toes, and each room was full of the grandest furniture. Tasha and Ala'a had a room all to their self, with pictures of fairy-stories on the walls and cupboards full of toys, and they used to play there on wet days after they had done their lessons and embroidery. When the weather was fine, however, Tasha and Ala'a much preferred to play in the garden, which was so big and so full of interesting things that nobody could ever get tired of it. There was a lake in the garden with nine swans on it; and there was a little summer-house all covered with roses; and there was an orchard where apples and pears and plum-trees grew. At the end of a long drive, by the lodge-keeper's cottage, were the big gates that shut the garden off from the road. The road led to the town, which was mile away, and all sorts of interesting people came walking along it.