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Updated: September 28, 2025
For the others, the days had been full of football training, with long tramps and fishing and berrying jaunts thrown in for amusement. Now that Tag Mosher was safely locked up in the county jail there had been no more raids on the food supplies of the camp. It was now necessary, therefore, to leave but one boy at a time in the camp, and Dick, while his hip was mending, had usually been that one.
Tom and Harry started in to unpack supplies from a pair of six-quart pails that they needed for the morning's work. "Say, hear that, fellows!" demanded Tom, straightening up suddenly. From the distance to the northward came a dull rumbling sound. "Thunder?" suggested Danny Grin, glancing wonderingly up at the clear sky. "If there's a storm coming it will upset a day's berrying," Reade announced.
He thinks he hates everybody, and I guess the trouble is that he wants to be liked. I'm going to ask Mrs. Cole or some other nice, motherly person about him." Then her eyes fell upon the clock and she uttered an exclamation of dismay. "Girls, where does the time go to? I meant to suggest that we go berrying this morning, but now we've got to wait till after dinner.
"It will be so much pleasanter," she said, "than going berrying with those school-children, for I dare say we would have found it hot and tiresome walking all that distance in the sun; so I'm right glad now that your father said no, instead of yes. Aren't you, Elsie?" "Yes," Elsie said with a sigh. Sophy was down on the floor, pulling off her shoes and stockings.
We won't go berrying to-day. Bears like blackberries, so I've read, and no one can tell but that there might be one in the berry patch where we are going." "Oh, I don't think so!" exclaimed Bert. "Maybe there isn't any truth in that story after all, about the wild animals escaping. That other boy didn't see 'em get away, did he?" asked Bert of Jim.
But the next number on the program was furnished by an unexpected participant. The berrying party was busy picking when a crash was heard as if some heavy body were running wild through the leaves and sticks of the woods near by. "Oh," cried Charlie, "I bet that's a bear! Manda, sing a Bear Charm Song!"
He had only his best ones, and he thought he might want to go berrying in Exeter and would spoil them tramping through the bushes and briers, and he did not like to wear shabby shoes. "Well, I can; but I guess he won't want it," said Grandma.
These last were the little rarities of Nature's table which a boy would come upon by chance when berrying and snatch with delighted surprise. They appealed to his imagination as well as to his tongue, since they belonged not to the known fruits in his spelling-book and dictionary, and possessed a strange sweetness of fancy and mystery beyond their woodland savor.
Polly sent her over there on an errand and she had felt unusually aggrieved because she had had to wind quills, or hetchel, instead of going berrying, or some like pleasant amusement. "Poor little cosset," grandma would say, pityingly.
He informed us that an old cinnamon bear and two cubs were berrying along the creek, and had taken the right of way. Then there was a hustling and borrowing of cartridges, while saddles were cinched on to horses as though human life depended on alacrity. We were all feeling quite gala anyhow, and this looked like a chance for some sport.
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