An old building

Once upon a time ...

in the village of Lugalo, there was an old building. It was long and dark, with a single door and a narrow corridor with sixteen equal tiny rooms. The floor was cracked, the walls dirty and scraped, the windows were bitten by rats and termites.

The old building was sad, because no one wanted to live in his dark tiny rooms, and in all those years it had never done any good. Even his owner was telling him: "You are useless! That's what you are! I've built you, and now nobody wants to live here! Your wooden windows have so many holes that I could use them as a colander. Useless! That's what you are...! " And the old building was getting every day darker, every day more sad.