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'Who are you? asked Granny Grim-Eye. "'Nothing nor nobody, replied the little girl, and that was all the answer Granny Grim-Eye could get from the child. "'Well, said Granny Grim-Eye, 'this is my strawberry-patch, and everything I find in it belongs to me. I'll take you home and see what I can make out of you.

Having started a strawberry-patch without loss of time wherever it is handiest, we can now give our attention to the formation of an ideal bed. In this instance we must shun the shade of trees above, and their roots beneath. The land should be open to the sky, and the sun free to practice his alchemy on the fruit the greater part of the day.

At this moment Julia, hearing his voice, burst in from the dining-room, exclaiming, "Frank, the Hillers have robbed your strawberry-patch!" "Not robbed it, exactly," said his mother, who had followed close after Julia, "but they have completely ruined it. There are not a dozen plants left in the ground."

The toad deserved his liberty too, and I took him into the strawberry-patch. The minister looked on at it all. Perhaps he didn't learn anything. But I did. And breathe it free, and breathe it free, By rangy marsh, in lone sea-liberty.

"You don't recollect any details. For instance, how did they come and did they bring witnesses with them?" "Yes. I was working in the garden weeding the strawberry-patch, I think. They came in an automobile alone. Wife and daughter were the witnesses." "Do you know when Mrs. Rankin and your daughter will be home?" "By next Tuesday, at the latest. Perhaps you can call again.

"No," answered one of the Rangers; "but he's got as nice a strawberry-patch as ever laid out-doors. But it's a little too early for strawberries." "Who cares for that?" said Charles. "We don't go to get the fruit; we only want to pay him for defending the Hiller meddling with other people's business.

It was late in the afternoon. The Chases had reluctantly taken their departure, bearing with them gifts of strawberries and roses. In the strawberry-patch sunshine and silence reigned undisturbed, except by the light June breeze which rustled the leaves enough to show beneath them the fruit which by day-after-to-morrow would be ripe enough to pick.

Frank was so surprised that he could scarcely utter a word; and, hardly waiting to hear what his mother said, he hurried from the house toward the strawberry-patch. It did, indeed, present a strange and desolate appearance. The bed had covered nearly half an acre; and, so well had the Rangers performed their work, that but few plants were left standing.

She was so old that the skin on her forehead had deep wrinkles in it, and these wrinkles caused everybody to think that the old woman was frowning all the time. People called her Granny Grim-Eye. "Whenever Granny Grim-Eye got hungry she went to a strawberry-patch in the field near where she lived, and gathered a basket of strawberries.

"Now, boys," he whispered, "keep still as mice; but, if we do start the dog, don't stop to fight him, but run like white-heads." The Rangers climbed over the fence, and followed their guide, who threaded his way through the trees and bushes with a skill worthy of a better cause, and a few moments sufficed to bring them to the strawberry-patch. "Be careful, boys," said Charles, in a low whisper.