industrious-appearing

Updated: May 14, 2025

From four to five on the following afternoon, Martin Dyke, appropriately clad in overalls, sat on a plank and painted. On the afternoon following that the lady of the house came home at four-thirty and caught him at it. "That's going to be ever so much nicer," she called graciously, not recognizing him from the view of his industrious-appearing back. "Thank you for those few kind words."

Samuel Hopkins Adams - From a Bench in Our Square