Village Squire, 1976-11, Page 18happy note for me. I was given the privilege of staying up and
accompanying my Father to the station to help escort this
grand old lady home again.
Watching that train with its bright lights approach our
station and knowing Aunt Mary was aboard made my heart
miss a beat. When the train stopped, I scanned the windows
for her face but alv.ays missed her. Already she was
descending the steps. After she kissed Aunt Annie, and shook
Dad's hand, I rushed in to hug her too. Dr. Mary was a tall,
bony person, with a large round face and merry eyes. Her
glasses, fascinated me as they were carried on a chain in her
lapel and were procured on her nose with a pinch spring. She
had a heap of soft snow white hair piled high on her head and
held in place by ivory combs. 1 cuddled close beside her in
the back seat of our car, as, I listened to her telling about her
two-day journey from Washington and of changing trains at
so many important places. This ruined my own theory that Dr.
Mary had come all the way from Washington, in the train, I
saw.
As we drove through town on Main Street, Dr. Mary would
say, "Robert, stop at MacKay's restaurant. I'll get some
ice-cream, for William will be looking for something to eat."
Uncle Bill was always William to Dr. Mary.
I can still remember that quart of bulk ice-cream. The
delicious anticipation of eating it from Aunt Annie's glass
sherbets was almost equal to the event itself. After Dad and
Uncle Bill had carried in all the trunks and suitcases, we sat
around the table in the lamp light, eating ice-cream. Dr. Mary
had brought peanuts for us, from the southern United States.
She told us about the hogs that were fattened on peanut vines
and how delicious the ham tasted. These gems of
conversation were the source of a great fund of general
knowledge I was to accumulate over the long summers she
spent beside us. When Dad and I got up to leave, Dr. Mary
would pat me on the head and say, "Come through the fields
tomorrow morning. I have something for you when I get
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