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HIDETURTLE makes the current turtle(s) disappear from the screen. The turtle continues to draw, but cannot be seen. The turtle draws much faster when it is hidden.
A visitor watched the old house that has not changed. It was built with granite walls. It had new outhouse with fewer trees. The Jackfruit tree was still there giving shade. His grandmother felt the shade was a blessing from the trees. As a boy he used to swing on a turnstile going round and round. Now it was gone. The tall Hollyhocks grew on the other side of the wall. A girl stood between the red hollyhocks staring at the man. She was 12 or 13 years old, slim, with lovely eyes and long black hair.
The girl asked the man weather he wanted to buy the house. The girl said it was her father's house and that he was a Colonel. She says that her mother said that he should have became a brigadier. They stood on either side of the wall appraising each other. The man said that he looked at the house because he lived there once and they had sold the house after his grandmother's death. She asked whether he would like to buy the house then. Later she realised he didn't have the month as he didn't look prosperous. He said he only wanted to see it and the girl said that they had lived there for three years. She called him in to have a better view of the house and that her parents wouldn't mind. She finds that he is middle aged. He climbed the wall, got up on the wall and rested breathing heavily.
She said she would help with him on the flying trapeze. She gave him her hand. He slipped down into a flower bed, breaking the stem of a hollyhock. Across the grass he spotted a stone bench under a mango tree. It was the bench where his grandmother sat trimming rose bushes and bougainvillea. He wanted to sit outside. She sat with him on the bench. They were silent and the man closed his eyes and remembered the music of a piano, the chiming of a grandfather clock, the noise of the birds on the veranda and his grandfather repairing the old car.
He remembered climbing the jackfruit tree. She said her parents wouldn't mind him climbing the tree. He only wanted to sit and talk for a few minutes. His favourite place was the Jackfruit tree. He said he used to keep his treasures in the hollow of the tree. Treasures were only Marbles he had won, a book he wasn't supposed to read, old coins, grandfather's Iron Cross awarded for bravery during the first world war in France. He got it from Germany soldier. She asked whether he had the Iron Cross. He didn't. He had left it in the Jackfruit tree. Being very excited at the time the bidding goodbye before sailing in the ship he forgot all about it.
Thinking it might still be there in the hollow of the tree, he said unless someone else found it, since 25 years had passed. He said he can't climb trees anymore to have a look and she said she would. She found it and ran towards in him with a rusty old medal in her hand. He made sure that it was the same Iron Cross. She asked him whether he had come to find it. He said he wasn't sure and asked her to have it as she found it and that it would have even been there for another 25 years.
He placed the medal in her hands and said that he had come for his youth and not for the Iron Cross. As he walked away to the bus stop he remembered his youth and the air filled with the smell of the sweet mango and the summer breeze made his blood rush in his veins for getting the feel that he was so old that he couldn't climb trees anymore.
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