other · Issue No. 1, January 1952 · p. 29

Between Two Palace Children / Between Two Street Children

بين طفلي القصر / بين طفلي الشارع

Between two palace children:

- Tell me, Mario, where did your mother buy the baby that arrived yesterday?

- She didn't buy it fwom here. It came from Paris by airplane, in a box of satin lined with lace!

Between two street children —
and they were listening to what was being said behind the railing:

- And you too, Manuel — your mother bought a baby; so where did she buy it? From New York?

- We're poor folk; we can't afford the airplane fare. My mother made it at home...

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