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wrap them into your transfers and then place them into cold water, and press a tea towel around them. Hold that for about two minutes, and your eggs come out beautifully coloured."

I saw on the stove a saucepan with boiling water. "What colour did you put into this saucepan, Olga?" "Blue."

"Can I put the eggs in here? They come out in such a rich blue colour, I always like that."

"I thought red was your favourite colour?" "It is, but don't you think red goes well with the blue?" "What you kids can do now is to grease the ready eggs slightly with this bacon rind. They will all come out shiny and the colouring will come out much brighter."

"Let Dieter do that. I would like to use my artistic talent," Günter said, "Maybe this year it will come out nicer than last year."

"You can always try." "Do you remember," Günter said as he used the paint brush carefully, "how Fräulein Müller had taught us to blow out eggs, and then paint them?"

"Didn't you have to make a hole into the egg?" "Oh, you forgot then? A small hole, top and bottom, then you had to blow the yoke and white through it."

"Yes, now I remember, but I was never very good at it." "You dropped an egg because you were too hasty. Then you had to clear up the mess, ha, ha, ha."

"But you managed all right, Günter, after Fräulein Müller pierced both ends with a sharp needle for you."

"Yes, I did." "Then I coloured the egg shells, a flower on one and an animal on another."

"Yeah, I thought you had painted a Rhino, but you said it was supposed to be a horse."

"I know. But then Fräulein Müller put a cord of wool through each egg and fixed them to the dining room lamp."

"It did look pretty, all six eggs hanging there." "Then there was the seed box which Fräulein Müller told us to sow with oats. We had put it in the green house and in about four weeks it had grown to about 10 cm. Jadwiga must have put a lot of wood into the furnace, to make it warm, because it grew so well."

"Don't be daft. The green house needs heating all the time, because there are many more seed boxes with young vegetable seedlings, which are later planted out into the garden."

"I like the greenhouse with the smell of good, damp compost and the growing plants."

"When we put the 'Easter Lawn', as Fräulein Müller called it, on the

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