In fact housewives are openly glad that
Dick, the postmaster, has taken to keeping strictly fresh yeast for
their leisure days and nice bakery things for times of stress and
unexpected company.
Dick Richards is a small, smiling, curly-headed man who looks older
than he should. This is because he wears a big man's mustache and is a
self-made boy. His parents died when he was barely old enough to
realize his loss and since then he has fought the world without a
single weapon unless cheerfulness and a giant patience can be called
weapons. Small, ungifted, he early learned to be content with little.
But side by side with this cheerful content is always the giant hope of
great things to come. And so though Green Valley buys only its yeast
and buns over his little counter he is happy and wraps each purchase up
carefully. And all the time he is thoughtfully, carefully setting out
other handy things and aids to the harassed housewife. For with his
giant patience Dick is waiting,--waiting and planning for a time that
is coming, that he knows must come. He talks these matters over with
no one except Joe Baldwin. He and Joe are great friends. Joe's little
shop is such a restful, hopeful place and Joe himself a gentle rather
than a loud and swearing man.
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