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He waved his hand at the Flower Prairie, at the elderberry jungle. "Here?" she cried, leaning forward eagerly. "Do you mean it? Really?" "Right here," he repeated, kicking the ground vigorously. "Oh, I'm glad!" she murmured. "I'm so glad!" "Why?" "I was afraid maybe my suspicions aren't true after all." She was silent for a moment. "But I can't leave I can't leave now!"
"At evening, when the ironin' 's done, an' Aunty's fixed the fire, An' filled an' lit the lamp, an' trimmed the wick an' turned it higher, An' fetched the wood all in fer night, an' locked the kitchen door, An' stuffed the ole crack where the wind blows in up through the floor She sets the kittle on the coals, an' biles an' makes the tea, An' fries the liver an' the mush, an' cooks a egg fer me, An' sometimes when I cough so hard her elderberry wine Don't go so bad fer little boys with 'Curv'ture of the Spine'!"
"Wait!" he cried, leaping toward her, but with one spring the horse was out of reach and galloping away. Payne watched till she was out of sight, but she did not look back. Higgins and the first ox wagon of his train arrived soon afterward, and in the morning he led the six negro laborers he had brought in an attack with heavy machetes upon the elderberry jungle.
Taken into the bosom of the family at once, Flinders tied outside and nibbling the grass at the roadside, Gertrude and I drank some home-made elderberry wine and told briefly of the fire. Of the more serious part of the night's experience, of course, we said nothing.
Let it stand a week or two, and then bottle it. This is an excellent domestic wine, very common in England, and deserving to be better known in America, where the elderberry tree is found in great abundance. Elderberry wine is generally taken mulled with spice, and warm. Take the flowers or blossoms of the elder tree, and strip them from the stalks.
He was sitting so still that he looked like a little light brown knot. David Songsparrow, who had his nest in the elderberry bush over by the fence, came flying into the woods.
Everyone said yes, quite so; and they all tried to handle their wine like it was a rare old vintage. But you can't hold much wassail on the juice of the elderberry; it ain't the most jocund stuff the world as fermented by Metta's mother. However, it livened things up a bit and Vernabelle set down her glass and chattered some more.
One time, dey sent me down de road to fetch somethin' 'n I heerd a bunch of horses comin', ah jumped ovah de fence 'n hid behind de elderberry bushes, until dey passed, den ah ran home 'n tol' 'em what ah done seen. Pretty soon dey come to de house, 125 Union soldiers an' asked fo' something to eat.
"Did you sign the other circular, issued last month, to the effect that the mine was practically valueless?" "Yes, sir." Elderberry studiously examined the moldings on the cornice of the judge's canopy. "Um!" remarked the court significantly. There was a flurry among the tall hats. Then Mr. Greenbaum sprang to his feet. "If you please, Your Honor," he announced, staccato, "we entirely disavow Mr.
"You go along the bank, and I'll scour the elderberry patch. This wood is so dense in spots, and so clear under the hemlocks, it is easy to lose and hard to find anyone in it," declared Grace. "I'm glad I brought my big rope. I intended to tie every knot in the course, and cut them all out to fetch back finished, and I haven't even unwound the rope."
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