4 Have You A Dream?
be Bud! very old man, bent double, with flowing white beard and
Phe acre) 2¥e8 stopped on the road on the other eile ny
a Bhe garden wali and looked up
at me as I sat perched on the
branch of aL ychee tree— was a boy then, I don’t climb trees
any more
What's your dream?” he asked
It was startling qu
‘estion coming from a raggedy old beggar
on the street; even more startling that should have been made
in English, English speaking be
BGars were a rarity.
Wy, What's your dream?” he repeated
} don’t remember,” I said. “I don’t think I had a dream |
last
night.
G That's not what I mean. You know it isn’t what I mean. I
can see you're a dreamer. It’s not the Lychee season, but you
sit in that tree all afternoon, dreaming.”
Ijust like sitting here,” I said. I refused to admit that I was
a dreamer. Other boys didn’t dream, they had catapults.
A dream, my boy, is what you want most in life. Isn’t there
something that you want more than anything else?”
Yes,” I said promptly. “A room of my own.”
Ah! A room of your own, a tree of your own, it’s the same
thing. Not many people can have their own rooms, you know.”
Just a small room.”
‘And what kind of a room do you live in now?”“It's
a big room, but
and even my
have to share it with My brothers ang
aunt when she visits”
you really want is freedom. Your ‘Own tree,
small place under the sun,”
ou have all tha