Read Fairy Tales Of Hans Christian Andersen in "By The Almshouse Window"

Near the grass-covered rampart which encircles Copenhagen lies a great red house. Balsams and other flowers greet us from the long rows of windows in the house, whose interior is sufficiently poverty-stricken; and poor and old are the people who inhabit it. The building is the Warton Almshouse.Look! at the window there leans an old maid....