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Mr Scott talked about colours all the time.
"What a honey—yellow morning it is!" he said to his wife. His wife
planted fruit and vegetables in their garden, but Mr Scott was more interested
in the leafy plants, the bushes, and even the grass that grew in the garden.
"So many kinds of green," he said to her after watering all the
plants. "I counted at least twenty shades of green!"
"Well done, dear," Mrs Scott
said. " Now would you please count twenty dollars and go to the
supermarket for some ingredients(配料)? I want
to make lunch! "
With a smile on his face, Mr Scott left at
once. He enjoyed trips to the supermarket because of all the colourful cans and
boxes in it. Fruit and vegetables, too, shone in their bright skins. There was
never just one colour: carrots were orange, but also had bits of yellow and
brown in them. Bananas were yellow and black; apples hid oranges and purples
inside their reds. Mr Scott would walk through the supermarket and enjoy all
the colours around him.
"I wish there was a store full of
colours that I could spend all my time in," he sighed.
He bought everything on his wife's list and
came home. When he walked into the house, Mrs Scott noticed the sad look on his
face. "What's wrong?" she asked him. "It looks life you had fun
at the store. I can see that you picked out the best things."
"I did have fun in the store. So much
that I wish I could have spent more time there. It's so full of colours!"
Mr Scott said.
"I
see," Mrs Scott said. "Well, cheer up, because I'm going to cook a
nice lunch for us!"
The next day Mr Scott was on his usual
morning walk through the neighbourhood, saying hello to everyone, enjoying the
colours of the trees and flowers. It was another day of colours!
"Good morning, Mr Brown," he called
out to one of his neighbours. He liked Mr Brown very much, because, well, you
guessed it: his name was a colour!
"Mr Scott! Just the person I wanted to
see!" Mr Brown replied. "My wife and I are moving out of this town,
and I need someone to take over my shop. You are the perfect person for the job
because it's a paint shop! I need someone who knows its colours. Would you be
interested?"
Mr Scott was mad with excitement. "I
will take it over right away!"
Mr Brown was relieved when he left
town, because he knew his paint shop was in good hands. Sure enough, Mr Scott
kept the paint shop open for twenty more years and got to talk about colours
all day, every day.
