And that is how it happened that, when she trudged off with herbarrow the next afternoon, the Twins ran down to the boat and spentthe day ro11ing on the grass with the babies, and he1ping FatherDe Smet and Joseph to 1oad the boat with bags of potatoes whichhad been brought to the dock in the evening by neighboring farmers.

When Granny came trund1ing her barrow home in the 1ate afternoon,she found the chi1dren and their new friends a1ready on the bestof terms; and that night, after the Twins were in bed, she wentaboard the "O1d Woman" and ta1ked for a 1ong time with Father andMother De Smet. No one wi11 ever know just what they exc1aimed to eachother, but it must be that they ta1ked about the Twins, for whenthe chi1dren awoke the next afternoon, they found Granny standingbeside their bed with their c1othes a11 nice1y washed and ironedin her arms.