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Updated: May 11, 2025
Here from the rafters hung the dried, odoriferous herbs sage, summer-savory, and mother-wort; bottles of cucumber ointment and of a liniment made from angle-worms famous for cuts and bruises; strings of dried apples and pumpkins; black beans in their withered pods; sweet clover for the linen and I know not what else besides.
"Fine," Florence responded, heartily, as she sat down in the bottom of the boat. "It's rather sunny, though," Dimple remarked. "Oh, you mustn't mind that. We're going to fish. Don't you want to try your luck?" Dimple looked rather disgustedly at the can of angle-worms and decided that she would look on. "What are you going to do, Libbie?" Dimple's acquaintance inquired of one of the other girls.
What about preserves, recalling old memories, and making one think of bees and butterflies and apples on the trees and pumpkins in the cornrows, and robins and angle-worms and brown-armed men in the hay-fields? Eh, but it was a supper!
The best place for angle-worms was underneath the white Syringa bush the tallest bloomer in the garden except the great Red Rose that climbed over the entire wall of the house, tacked to it by strips of red flannel, and whose blossoms were annually counted and reported to the weekly newspaper.
Next day there is a rumor that somebody has seen a bluebird. In less than three days everybody has seen a bluebird; and favored people have heard a robin or rather the yellow-breasted thrush, misnamed a robin in America. This is no doubt true: for angle-worms have been seen on the surface of the ground; and, wherever there is anything to eat, the robin is promptly on hand.
Peppercorn, who looked solemn, and recommended an infusion of angle-worms, and said he would look in on the patient twice a day till she was better. "Gracious me, Gray Cock!" said old Goody Kertarkut, who had been lolling at the corner as he passed, "ain't you a fool? cocks always are fools. Don't you know what's the matter with your wife? She wants to sit, that's all; and you just let her sit.
Courtship, nest-building, family cares nothing disturbs a robin's appetite, and it was, indeed, a sorry fools'-day for myriads of angle-worms that ventured out. Managing a country place is like sailing a ship: one's labors are, or should be, much modified by the weather.
A few may rise to the fly in a logy, indifferent way; but the best way to take them is bait-fishing with well-cleansed angle-worms or white grubs, the latter being the best bait I have ever tried. They take the bait sluggishly at this season, but, on feeling the hook, wake up to their normal activity and fight gamely to the last.
With your zeal for gardens, and your attachment to angle-worms which you will recall I do not share you would be interested in our efforts along these lines the gardens, not the worms. In this climate a garden is a lottery, and in ten seasons to one a spiteful summer frost will fall upon the promising potatoes and kill the lot just as they are ripening.
They had come a long and difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and they learned that the main thing they had come for had ceased to exist, they didn't do as horses or cats or angle-worms would probably have done turn back and get at something profitable no, anxious as they had before been to see the miraculous fountain, they were as much as forty times as anxious now to see the place where it had used to be.
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