“ Hector had a question he wanted to ask about children. Why did the children he’d seen in the...

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Hector had a question he wanted to ask about children. Why did the children he’d seen in the city smile all the time, even though they lived in the street and had nothing, no shoes, and often no parents to look after them? The grown-ups didn’t smile, which was understandable given the lives they had. But why did the little children seem happy?

Everybody thought the question was very interesting. They came up with lots of answers. ‘Because they don’t yet fully realise their situation, they can’t make comparisons.’ This reminded Hector of lesson no. 1. ‘Because children who are sad die more quickly, so we don’t see them. Only happy children survive.’ ‘Because they were pleased to see Hector.’ Everybody burst out laughing, and Marie-Louise told Hector that this proved it was true! And then one of the cousins (she was rather too pretty, so Hector had been careful not to look at her too much) said, ‘Because they know that people will be kinder to a child who smiles.’
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