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"Oh, yes; that's another reason," said Sally. "Mara and I shall come home through the woods in the morning, and we can get whole apronfuls of young wintergreen, and besides, I know where there's a lot of sassafras root. We'll dig it, won't we, Mara?" "Yes; and I'll come down and help you brew," said Mara. "Don't you remember the beer I made when Moses came home?"
"I thought I'd bring 'em for Miss Emily." "Miss Emily will be a thousand times obliged to you," said Mr. Sewell, rising up. As to Mara and Sally, they were reveling in apronfuls of shells and seaweed, which they bustled into the other room to bestow in their spacious baby-house. And now, after due time for Zephaniah to assume a land toilet, all sat down to the evening meal.
As she felt a little bored, she went to gather some food for her rabbits in the churchyard, where there were some magnificent poppies, of which rabbits are extremely fond. Dragging herself about on her knees between the grave-stones, she gathered apronfuls of juicy verdure on which her pets fell greedily.
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