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Guy was exceedingly particular, and developed a wonderful proclivity to

find fault with everything I ad for

Daisy until at last a et one up which should

suit, and so the carpet question was happily ended for the ti

Then caiven to the

upholsterer to do his best, andfinely when

order number two came from the little lady, as sorry to seem so

fickle, but ainst all

blue, and would Guy please furnish the room with drab trimmed with blue

"It must be a very delicate shade of drab," she wrote, and lest he

should get too intense an idea, she would call it a _tint_ of a _shade_

of drab, or, better yet, a _hint_ of a tint of a shade of drab would

describe exactly what she meant, and be so entirely unique, and lovely,

and recherché

Guy never swears, and seldo of any kind, but this was a

little too much, and with a most rueful expression of countenance he

asked me "what in thunder I supposed a hint of a tint of a shade of drab

could be"

I could not enlighten him, and we finally concluded to leave it to the

upholsterer, to who him hunt New

York over for the desired shade Where he found it I never knew, but

find it he did, or so to it, a faded, washed-out