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TELLEF’S GRANDMOTHER 121
And yet there was something sad, too, at
Tellefs house, for Tellef s grandmother was
blind. Just think! When she went out of doors
she had to keep her hand on the house and walk
that way, going round and round it; and that
looked so queer. Sometimes she would sit
right down on the grass and cry because she
could not see; and somehow it seemed especially
sad that she should cry with those sightless
eyes.
"Aren’t you glad that you can see?" said
Grandmother to the boys one day. "Don’t
you thank God every day for your good eyes?"
No, Johnny Blossom had never thought of
such a thing. He shut his eyes tight so as to
know how it would seem to be blind. Oh, dear,
it must be dreadful! Think of everything being
dark — always, always dark!
One day he and Tellef took the grandmother
up on the knoll. She longed to feel the salt
wind blowing directly from the water, she said.
So there she stood, with her gray hair tossing
about her wistful old face, and with her sightless
eyes turned toward the sea.
"It was very kind of you boys to bring me up
here," said Grandmother. "Oh, if I could only
see the water! Is it smooth and bright?"
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