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A person must be interested in it, to paraphrase a line of Wordsworth's, ere to him it will seem worthy of his interest. One thing is linked to another or gives a clue to another. There is no surer way to find birds' nests than to go berrying or fishing. In the blackberry or raspberry bushes you may find the bush sparrow's nest or the indigobird's nest.
The next afternoon he went berrying with a little boy who lived next door. At five o'clock aunt Annie ran over to the store to see if the coat had come. "It has," she told her mother when she returned; "it came at one o'clock, and Mother Perry gave it to Willy to bring home." "To Willy? Why, what did the child do with it?" Grandma said wonderingly. "He didn't bring it home."
"Well, this is Peggy Raymond, our mistress of ceremonies, and this is Ruth Wylie, who thinks everything that Peggy does is exactly right, and I'm the scatterbrain of the lot." Lucy Haines looked a little bewildered as she met the girls' smiles, when Peggy came to the rescue. "A crowd of us are in Mrs. Leighton's cottage for the summer, and this is our first berrying.
I was always thinking that the next time we went berrying, I should try for the head of the procession; but the fun was too much for me; I could not hold to my resolution above a half hour; I was excessively fond of praise but averse to the ways of meriting it. The only long word I brought away from childhood was approbativeness.
"So, you've been berrying again?" he said, stopping short. "Yes," said Robert, briefly. "You haven't got the boat repaired, I suppose." "Not yet." "It's lucky for you this is berrying season." "Why?" "Because you'd probably have to go to the poorhouse," said Halbert, insolently. "I don't know about that," said Robert, coolly.
The house remained, with all its furniture in its spacious rooms and chambers, ready for the exile's occupancy, as soon as he should reappear. As time went on, however, it began to be neglected, and was accessible to whatever vagrant, or idle school-boy, or berrying party might choose to enter through its ill- secured windows.
That part of New England was not far from being a Forest of Arden, when Emerson might be met any day with a pail berrying in the pastures, or Margaret Fuller reclining by a brook, or Hawthorne on a high rock throwing stones at his own shadow in the water. There was a Thoreau there still is in every New England village, usually inglorious.
The array of tin pails with the berrying party suggested the probability that the occupants of Dolittle Cottage would eat nothing but raspberries for a week. Aunt Abigail and Dorothy had insisted on equipping themselves with the largest size of pail, though it was noticeable that when they were once in the pasture, most of the berries they gathered went into their mouths.
"What, I, Amasa Delano Jack of the Beach, as they called me when a lad I, Amasa; the same that, duck-satchel in hand, used to paddle along the water-side to the school-house made from the old hulk I, little Jack of the Beach, that used to go berrying with cousin Nat and the rest; I to be murdered here at the ends of the earth, on board a haunted pirate-ship by a horrible Spaniard?
"There's a thunder-shower coming up," Flora said after a little. "Where's your aunt?" "Gone berrying." "She'll get caught in the shower if she don't look out. What makes you work so steady this hot day, Lois?" "I've got to get this done." "There isn't any need of your working so hard." Lois said nothing.
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