Still, I'm hoping it'll stay a bit longer, though I
can't say I'm not ready for cold weather."
"Oh, I guess everybody is," agreed Fanny with that joyous, bubbling,
luxurious note that Grandma knew so well. "I saw Mary Hagley polishing
her very knuckles off on that second-hand stove Mert bought from that
watery-eyed man from Spring Road who drives through here with the lame
buckskin horse and pieced-out harness. Lutie Barlow's got her fall
tinting and painting all done. She's painted the inside of her chicken
coops a bright yellow, so's to fool her hens into thinking the sun's
forever shining, and the inside of her stormshed a red, so's to make it
seem warmer when she goes out there on a cold day to the coal and wood
box. There ain't anybody can beat Lutie on color ideas.
"Minnie Eton's dyed her heavy lace curtains in coffee and has a new set
made for the dining room, besides having a picture of the third boy
enlarged for the parlor. She started crocheting the lace for a new
bedspread for her company bedroom yesterday. And--oh, my lands, I
forgot to tell you the rest of that second-hand stove business. You
see Mary was feeling pretty bad about having to put up with another old
stove and envying Cissie Harvey hers.
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