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Updated: June 8, 2025
The next time Sammy and Roy met at the parsonage, three flower-pots of moist sand stood in a row under the bench. "Winter quarters," Miss Ruth explained when she saw the boys looking at them; "and it's about time for my tenants to move in. Greeny and Blacky have stopped eating, and Sly-boots is turning pale." "A worm turn pale!" "Yes, indeed; look at him."
He thought how a gambler at the State fair picked him out for a greeny before he had fairly got through the gate, and wondered how the gambler could have known he was so green without being told, and yet he carried a sign of greenness, from the faded and sunburned hair of his head to the sole of his stove-blacking shoes.
The blind at his elbow that allowed the light of a street lamp to struggle vaguely through the glimpse of greeny blue moonlight seen through the distant kitchen door the sulky glow of the fire under the black ashes of the burnt manuscript the glimmering of the tulips and the moon-daisies and narcissi in the bowls and jugs and jars these did not so trick and bewilder his eyes that he would not know his Own!
"I guess I can take keer of myse'f about as well as the Next One," retorted Uncle Brewster. "I've been to the Mill an' got my Grist, if any one should ask. I ain't no Greeny." With that he started for the Train, which was due in one Hour.
Away over hill and dale I saw that greeny cliff with its silver thread of falling water that marked our refuge, and beyond this again, on my right hand, the white spume of the breakers on the reef. And beholding the beauties thus spread out before my eyes, and knowing myself undisputed lord of it all, there grew within me a sense of joy unknown hitherto.
"Yes, just when we ought to make a grand burst of speed, too," said Jerry. "You forget that the sun is low, and evening close at hand," replied Frank, "Tell me about that, and what it has to do with us. I'm a greeny when it comes to running a motor-boat." "Oh, the boat has little to do with it; but please remember that the Gulf of Mexico is a larger affair than Camalot Lake.
However, he lingered there forgetfully, dreaming in the greeny half-light amidst the foliage, and listening to the continuous murmur of the Gave, as if a voice, a dear voice from the realms beyond, were speaking to him. Pierre meantime hastened back to Marie.
And then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind blank and O! then the Roman candle burst and it was like a sigh of O! and everyone cried O! O! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads and they shed and ah! they were all greeny dewy stars falling with golden, O so lovely, O, soft, sweet, soft! Then all melted away dewily in the grey air: all was silent. Ah!
The basket on his arm was also against him. "Some greeny that wants a nickel's worth of beans, I suppose," said one. But if the clerks seemed to make little of Pat, Pat, for his part, regarded them with indifference.
However, he lingered there forgetfully, dreaming in the greeny half-light amidst the foliage, and listening to the continuous murmur of the Gave, as if a voice, a dear voice from the realms beyond, were speaking to him. Pierre meantime hastened back to Marie. He was able to join her without much difficulty, for the crowd was thinning, a good many people having already gone off to dejeuner.
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