Golden Windows by Laura E. Richards

I'm going to do a running post, a short summary of each chapter of this text, which is online here. Laura E. Richards is probably better known for her poem Eletelephony.

ch 1 The Golden Windows - a farm boy sees a house on a hill with windows made of gold and diamonds. One day his father gives him a day off, so he goes to see this house. When he gets there, he finds that the windows are just regular glass like his own house. But he meets a girl his age who tells him that she, too, has seen a house with windows made of gold and diamonds. She points to a house on a hill, and it's his own house!