I have
a message for Tony, anyway, and this is just the time to deliver it.'
"So back we went and we met Uncle Tony stepping in at the front door
too. He must have sneaked out the back way and come around the front
so's not to let on he'd heard anything. He was kind of white and
miserable about the mouth and his eyes looked out kind of blind. But
he smiled when Mrs. Jerry Dustin said, 'Good morning, Tony.' I
wonder," Fanny digressed, "if it's true that Uncle Tony wanted to marry
Mrs. Dustin once. Sadie Dundry says so but you know how unreliable
Sadie is about what she knows.
"Well, anyhow, those miserable men things around that stove just smiled
at Uncle Tony like so many Judases and all commenced talking at once.
But Mrs. Dustin didn't give them much chance. She just took up all
Uncle Tony's attention and time. She bought and bought, being real
careful of course to ask only for the things she knew he had; and to
top it all she bought four quarts of robin's-egg blue paint. You know
that's Uncle Tony's favor-ite woodwork paint and nobody goes in there
for paint but what he's trying to get them to buy robin's-egg blue.
Seems his mother's kitchen on the old farm was done that way and Uncle
Tony's never been able to see any other color.
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