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Here we came foi; several yevs to pick tjiie fruit.^ I^i,;is live one olf those day$ ov^. Biirt and I are ifp before the'day is aired, eat ouV breakfast iji haste, aiid start for th^ farn]i^ with ovir little t|n pails swingling in our hands. De\y thick on the grass wets 9ur f^t, and the smell of the clover i/s wafted to us on the wings of the morning breeze. , ^^'e, go alon^ in silence, ever our chatter sttbdned By ^he beauty ahdf^^ce and fre$hne.ss of the world, an^ li>ten ;as we go to the meadow lark in a near-by field splitting , his ittle throat, in an ecst^cy of song. ' -i . . ,. . ,, .We coiflp presently to tHe'lane'at the farm, A dear familiar walk, only used by in^im^tesand members of th^ family, the real formal entrance being tiji the hill. Down thi^j^alf wild pathway we alway.Tlove to lingbr. There were straVTberries id the fentfe eeyaj^rsr^ bgfcrg jwy^^ her^ raspbames top ^ad^mld^ gooacb e rrieg so sodr arid pridfc*^ ly that they skmned our tongues and made our stdma9hs'ache but seldofn got leave to ripen, but were crunched by the ^^th 6( the small pi fates seeking for bbo'ty who toam- ed up^nd(^o\»fn,,thelane, Ajong it there were twq or three butter nut tre^, always In SL/i,f^y ^ii • 4i their season laden ^fitli nuts to tempt us to loiter, and it was a regular habit, as much a matter of course as ppening the gate, that as you passed each tree you kept on the lookout for fa len nuts, or knocke;d one down and cracked it on the larce flat stone conveniently placed under each tree. Dear me ! what fingers the juice from the outside shell gave us. Our lips too they stained brown, and our linen pinafores were spattered with the stain and got us many scoldings ; but only half hearted ones afttff all for our mothers before us had many a time followed that same old pathway :i ,• t, '^ll^" '"^'"^ *^^ ''"^^ ^'''^' ^^^^ the use of which our ideas were vagup Our delight however in :ts huge fite of tamarac logs, which grandfather used lo light ev- ery fall was keen and the lurid glare from its outlet in the top, w^jich illumined the cool dark nights was a signal to which we loved to respond. '^ , " Surreptitious feasts provided for by raids on the potato field, the corn patch and even, at propitious times when grandfather left the kiln in charge f uncle on the hen' house, were sometimes mysteriously hi'ntt-d at bv the eldest of us. When we passed the big haw tree we had'only a straight path to the house door and as we are in a great hurry this morning we do not linger. Grandmother gives us another breakfast kud then we go around the fences till we come to the berry patch We begin by placing a large green basswood leaf in each of our pails to keep the berries off the tin and then put the pails under a clump of bushes out of the sun With kre t ardor we begin to pick into our cups We are very anxious to carry home enough berries for tea. We keep on for awhile very diligently, only occasionally putting a berry into our mouths, and with great ceremony empty the cups several times into the green lined pails. It gets hotter and hotter ; the breeze dies down and even our biff ^raw hats shelter u& inadequately. By the time the sun is directly o^^head we a re dead— beat and seizing our pailsand lunch we make a bee-line for the bottom of the hill The berry bushes grow all down the side in the sutisliine, but at the foot there is a fringe of treMand a linle lirook which merrily wends its way over stones, Tjetween grassy banks We pull off our big hats and sit down on the mossy bank. Across the sunnv pasture we see the heat quivering in the stiMnessand with a sigh of relief stretch our- selves out to listen to the s)undsof suimner : the cool murmur of the running water the drowsy hum of the bees! the clank of the mill. A robin says " tut, tut" as he flies' off and over in a distant field a cow-bell sounds fitfully. The cows, too. are taking heir noonday rest and the bell is silent, .save when a particularly energetic fly touches the old leader in a tender spot. ■'•*•' A wail from Burt makes me open my eyes, to see him energetically spitting^ut a mouthful of beiries he has been getting surreptitiously out of his pail I know wha has happened but still say, "What is the matter?" As soon as he is through spluttering he says laconically, "berry-bug". W^ look in his pail to find the ifttle doe iji the manger that one never sees eating berries, ^ don't know whether it does or not but It crawls over them and leaves its nasty odor ^nd spoils them for others We can't fand It, so conclude it has either travelled off ot Burt got it into his mouth with the berries (at which he makes another wry face).We ^at our lunch and wish we had more Wejeel strangely disinclined to leave our shady refuge an^again up the %un-bath- Gone alas is our ardent desire to supply Mother with bJries for tea We vield ourselves to the influence of the hottest hour of the day and drowse away on the erass until a shaft of sunlight gradually pierces unde r tfae t rees and we sit up suddenly ta discover th^the^n IS onJis my ddWrt^^^t^ stir ourse ves. We lazily begin to mount upwards. As we reach the berries and be- gin to pick in a desultory fashion, Burt says, "Gosh, its hot. I believe this hill is a nes and^ogs, fi'led up the hollows and clothed the trees with a mantle of er- mine, when all the-misv little brooks Sre ice-bound and the chick a dee, the bluejay and an occasional crow are the sole represetitatiyes of the summer throngs. See it as the sun sinks to the west some shorK winter afternoon. The sky is a glorious study m yellows, deep orange at the horizon. The boles of the trees become luminous and the tops are silhouetted against the sky in a delicatfe tracery. There is an air of hushed waiting, (^expectancy and of mystery that appeals^ to one in a different way tbatt Spring '^Ifflltits promise, Summer with its luxury of growth, or Autumn with Jts^loriom fdKltnent. Thet^ later v^n the days begin to get warm^ and the nights are cold and still, sdrae one a^ddenly discovers the saAis running and the sttgar making begins. M ■ - ~ "- . " j.<:'«"*1 «" \t to hold the sap I remember one of those Spring rtiornings Bob a«,d I wantecHo go on the sled with uncle but he was cross and, would have none of us so we ran across to the camp to be on hand when he finished wildlook^in"hc.r'r"^'^"f"^^ the ox coming along the trail at a clumsy gallop, a ",^f on the .W S"f ^-PTif^"'^^'" ^^^ """'^' « sorry sight, drenched with sap. stand- ^^Jt?"i ^ belal)onng the poor old ox with a tree branch and using some very em- -phatic language. Buck had got off the the beaten track, .stepped into a ho l»w and Tn nnol! w''^''''"^i'Pr'^ "^'J'^ ^^^^ ""^ '"^'■^ ^^^'^ half th; barrd of sap had gone over uncle^We remar4ced to each other that uncle was sweet outside- and sSur wiK and then fled before the baleful glare of his eye. wiwin ana __^ When the buds begin to swell the sap gets bitter and then soiHe nfghT word geeg around we can cothe to the last " Sugarihg Off." The huge .pot of sap boZg mer 'V1 s h -'< ^- mBmSSSSSm^^StT'' V- fr ^''< / . rily over a brisk fire-of drv bougfhs was always thecentre of attraction.-^ It was gener- al proi^fty ^id ^ all did as we liked^^with it.. Some of us dropped eggs itito the boiling mass' cooked them hai^. and presently fishing them out with a long spoon, peeled 'ind nte them. ' Others (^ the sahi6 with appl -s if any could be procured that had survived the winter, running all sorts of risks of being Kpattered with the, boiling sip. A portion of it was ladled out after it had been clarified and ^tlj^^ over to. those who wanted to make taffy. Sonre watited it boiled sufficiently toniake bard cake^ when txjured into moulds and cooled and a few elected to have their share after it was stirred briskly until it forme^ grann'es and became a cdarsjfe brown granjufete4 sngar. Grandmother stood all the While in the shelter of the litt-le ^rtiior, her wind- lilown haif in curly disorder a pound hef^ace, calling admonitions kboHt ihe. hot sap aud the fire. : • . ' Everywhere was the soflnd of running water and usually a rpbin on a tajl elm somewhere near sounded 'tlie A.ssembly" to the*#j;ds. Thfere .jivas a stir all through the woods, a balmy soft feeling in the air alid a smell of tnould'^troiri the high sppts where t*e snow had gone that made the sap in our young vefns stir like that in the tic warhoops, enactec^n Indian Massacre, circled around the fire, which for the timd was an unfortunate settlers dwelling, and scalped each other wit^ relish. Little recked we as we^ stumbled homeward through the datkness» the younger portion of us^dding fast to grandmother's hand or some part o f her rfc i men t, thaf "the toes of our bbbls 'were Mrhed fed kicking tHel^^^^ position, that our clothes had mysterious holes to be accounted for in the moriiing, that our tongues were blist- ered with pemature tastings or that our faces were black anda^eneral .imell of smoke „„- ..=:;i»'? a'nd sap pre\-a^d the whole., We only knew we were'Steeped in sugar t IJ.J.-i.. 4 miu \^4 •<■ ' ^^m^'P^W't^^'^-r^^ ' ■*^A'' '' "^ l''*^^! •*'v, mi. V.V .0' J * ft i- V ^! - 'Vt .'^ o-^^. // ' * ' -»■/>, . tr -'■.' " '■.'" ■■ ■-■:^,"'^ , V ' . -s J, M,- it ► If ■■ 'If *, .^ 'l- .*- V-S' ■^7 H- T ■ * -« ft* ■•,. ■>- ■ ■ • 9 " ■■ft... •" , 's , - * \ * « - • ' / / / • \ \. * \ > \ / « .5*, — 4 -\ " - 1 - -.* 0* ■ \ \ \ i 1 ^ wm ■ ■ HHI HHHHH ■■ ■■■ ■!■ 1 ■ ■ w k 1 1 1 ^1 ^^H I ^1 ■ 1 1 I V • ^ 1 ^1 ^^^1 ■ m ■ 1 1 ■ . . . 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