“It got so lonely for poor Jancsi, he would have given ten horses for a brother. He had it all figured out- he would give a donkey even for a sister. Not horses, just a donkey.”
″‘Send the poor little motherless lamb away, Father? You couldn’t,’ cried Mother. ‘Her very own father calling her names. I just know her poor little heart is broken.‘”
“Father took the egg offered to him. It wasn’t a very good Easter egg, being a tiny bit smeary, but to father it was the most beautiful gift in the world.”
“Jancsi began to realize that this dirty, skinny little girl in the plain blue dress was his cousin. He felt cheated- that was bad enough- but she called Father ‘funny’ and said he was a girl- that was really too much!”