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All I knew of forests was from story-books, and there they were full of ever such grand trees. Adam went on "And if wicked boys will break down the trees " "I only pulled the bilberries," interposed Jamie, in a whine which went off in a howl. "James Duff!" said Adam, with awful authority, "I saw you myself tumble over a young larch tree, not two feet high." "The worse for me!" sobbed Jamie.
Pungent, deep-sunken, lichen- covered springs of reddish water were hidden amidst undergrowth in little glades, couched in layers of turf bordered by red bilberries and huckleberries. With September came the frosts fifty degrees below zero. The snow lay everywhere crisp and dazzling. There was daylight for three or four hours only; the remainder of the time it was night.
'What an inspiration! What a COMBLE DE JOIE INDEED! What is the Schnapps? He looked at it, and laughed. 'Heidelbeer! he said. 'No! From the bilberries under the snow. Doesn't it look as if it were distilled from snow. Can you she sniffed, and sniffed at the bottle 'can you smell bilberries? Isn't it wonderful? It is exactly as if one could smell them through the snow.
As soon as you are well enough, we will go and pick forget-me-nots, and later will come strawberries and then bilberries." Nora shook her head. "I should not enjoy it." Emma did not know what to make of this, for she could think of nothing more delightful, but immediately she bethought herself.
They drank kvass made of red bilberries, juniper-berries, or of bread Antonina Ivanovna always carried a stock of different kinds of kvass. They ate in silence, only now and then uttering a sigh of fatigue; the children each ate out of a separate bowl, the adults eating out of one bowl.
And when you will make your Mead with Cherries or Morello-Cherries, or Raspes, or Bilberries, or Black-cherries, put their juyce to the Liquor when you tun it, without ever boiling it therein; about one quart of juyce to every three or four gallons of Liquor. You may squeese out the clear juyce, and mingle it with the Liquor, and hang the Magma in a bag in the bung.
There were plenty of bilberries and elder berries, but no raspberries. They wandered on and on, and at last they came
And now, with feelings which are not to be told, must she give Sara to drink from the muddy water, in which, however, to make it more refreshing, she bruised some bilberries. Sara thanked her for it as if it had been nectar. "Is there anywhere in this neighbourhood a place where one can meet with people, and obtain the means of life?" asked Petrea from her little guide.
The world seemed stained in crimson, and in every shade and combination of it. Close at hand the reds and pinks were diapered with green and gold as the bilberries and the grasses ran in and out of the heather; but on every side the crimson spread and billowed to the horizon, covering the hollows and hills of the Chase, absorbing all lesser tones into itself.
The huckle-berries were ripening too, and soon afforded them a never-failing source of food; there were also an abundance of bilberries, the sweet rich berries of which proved a great treat, besides being very nourishing. "Oh for a lodge in the vast wilderness, The boundless contiguity of shade!"
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