The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 23 Page 14

The boy looked with wide eyes dreamily past the two men so attentively regarding him.

“I — I reckon I jes’ put ‘em thar fer to look like the sea hit war on the world. I don’t guess the’d be no ocean nor no world ‘thout the’ war mountains fer to hold everything whar hit belongs at.”

“I shall bring you a box of paints to-morrow if the nurse will allow you to have them. I’ll provide an oilcloth to spread around so he won’t throw paint over your nice clean bed,” he said to the pleasant-faced young woman.

“That’s all right, Doctor,” she said.

“Then you can make the blue stay on, and you can make the ocean with real water, and real blue for the sky and the sea.”