In the Family
We woke up very late the next day; it was already past noon. Our neighbours later told us that they had been worried: they saw none of us the whole morning. It had never happened before that we left and did not give them notice, asking them to keep an eye on our house while we were gone. That was how we always proceeded. But they thought that maybe we had left very early in the morning, when they were still asleep. They thought that we had left to see a doctor, for our father had told them last night that our brother was ill. Or maybe we had overslept because we had not been able to sleep at night...
Those were our relations with our neighbours”, the Flea told the little Worm. “We usually knew everything about each other because, in case of an emergency, they were the ones
