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Imperfectly listed, for there one may find also the birch and the beech, the linden, sycamore, chestnut, poplar, hemlock-spruce, butternut, and maple overhanging such pleasant undergrowths as the hornbeam and hop-hornbeam, willows, black-cherry and choke-cherry, dogwood and other cornels, several viburnums, bush maples of two or three kinds, alder, elder, sumach, hazel, witch-hazel, the shadblow and other perennial, fair-blooming, sweet-smelling favorites, beneath which lies a leaf-mould rife with ferns and wild flowers.
Choke-cherry ain't no good; but Black-cherry bark's awful good for lung complaint. Grandma always keeps it. So she and Yan planned an expedition together. The boldness of it scared the boy. The girl helped herself to a hatchet in the tool box the sacred tool box of his father. Yan's mother saw her with it and demanded why she had it.
There were many lessons good and bad that Yan might have drawn from this; but the only one that he took in was that the Black-cherry bark is a wonderful remedy. The family doctor said that it really was so, and Yan treasured up this as a new and precious fragment of woodcraft.
In this Month we have the Morello and Black Cherry ripe, which both are pleasant in Brandy; to those who would have Drams by them, the way of making Black-Cherry Brandy, is only to pick the Cherries from the Stalks, and put them whole into the Brandy, about a Pound of Cherries to a Quart; this may remain for about a Month before it is fit to drink, and then the Brandy may be pour'd from the Cherries, and the Cherries put then into a Vessel of Ale will make it extremely strong, only about the proportion of a Pound of Cherries to a Gallon of Ale; but some will put fresh Brandy to them, and the Cherries will turn the Brandy of a deep Colour, and give it a strong taste of Ratafia; others will distill these Cherries in a cold Still, with as much Water as will cover them, and draw a fine Cordial from them.
Utterly regardless of property rights, she showed Yan how to chip off the bark of the Black-cherry. "Don't chip off all around; that's bad luck take it on'y from the sunny side." She filled a basket with the pieces and they returned home. Here she filled a jar with bits of the inner layer, then, pouring water over it, let it stand for a week.
William Perronet declared that he had preached the Gospel, not only by words and example, but by looks also, wherever he went. From the early days of his frugal feasting upon bread and currants, Fletcher strongly believed in the plentiful use of fruit as food. His grapes were succeeded the following summer by a black-cherry diet, and for severe rheumatism he drank a decoction of pine-apple.
A week or two longer and she would have shared the great secret, but something took place to end their comradeship. Lung Balm One day as this girl went with him through a little grove on the edge of the town, she stopped at a certain tree and said: "If that ain't Black-cherry!" "You mean Choke-cherry." "No, Black-cherry.
"And I never told anybody in the world but Levin Dennis yisterday," Jack cried out, when he was able to get his breath. "Whar did you go, Jack, wid the long man and Levin all day yisterday?" Samson asked. "Yes, whar was you?" Jimmy Phoebus shouted, with one of his Greek paroxysms of temper on, as his dark skin and black-cherry eyes flamed volcanic.
I said the Time and Tide did circumscribe my Visit. She gave me a Dram of Black-Cherry Brandy, and gave me a lump of the Sugar that was in it. She wish'd me a good Journy. I pray'd God to keep her, and came away. Had a very pleasant Journy to Salem. November 1. I was so taken up that I could not go if I would. November 2. Midweek, went again, and found Mrs. Alden there, who quickly went out.
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