Were they green, honest and truly, Jed ?" Mr.Winslow nodded.
"They were that mornin'," he drawled, solemnly.
"That morning?
What do you mean ?" "We-ll, you see, Maud, those kittens were into everything and over everything most of the time.

Four of 'em had got in here early afore I came downstairs that day and had been playin' hide and hoot amongst my paint pots.

They was green in spots, sure enough, but I had my doubts as to its bein' fast color." Maud laughed joyfully over the secret of the green pussies.
"I wish I might have seen that woman's face after the colors began to wear off her 'rare' kitten," she said.
Jed smiled slightly.

"Nathan saw it," he said.

"I understood he had to take back the kitten and give up the seven dollars.