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Updated: May 15, 2025
The Caterpillar, sly dog, has secured Iris Warde, and looks uncommonly pleased with himself and his companion; a smart pair, but smart pairs are common as gooseberries. It is the year of picture hats and Gainsborough dresses. "England at its best," says Miss Iris. "And in its best," the Caterpillar replies solemnly. Iris Warde is as keen as her father's daughter ought to be.
Then, as I had eighty francs saved up, I gave up my place, and we set out together. You see, madame, if I am so fond of him, it's because he used to bring me gooseberries from the parsonage, whereas all the others beat me." She relapsed into silence for a moment, her countenance swollen by grief, and her poor eyes so scorched by watching that no tears could come from them.
Lay vine leaves at the bottom of a tin preserving-pan, cover them with the hops, then a layer of leaves, and so on: lay a good many on the top, and fill the pan with water. Stop it down so close that no steam can escape, set it by a slow fire till scalding hot, and then take it off to cool. Repeat the operation till the gooseberries, on being opened, are found to be of a good green.
Five acres of gooseberries are grown on the place, and other small-fruits in proportion all for the Parkersburg market, whence much is shipped north to Cleveland. Our host confessed to a little malaria, even on this upper terrace or "second bottom," as they style it but "the land is good, though with many stones natural conditions, you know, for New Englanders."
Four meat patties, some hard-boiled eggs and slices of bread and butter, cakes, biscuits, milk, gooseberries, and apples, made a lunch fit for four queens. And the children fairly squealed with delight as they unrolled packet after packet. "We will have a table," cried Esther, springing up and spreading a newspaper on the seat for a tablecloth, "and lay everything out on it.
Then, as I had eighty francs saved up, I gave up my place, and we set out together. You see, madame, if I am so fond of him, it's because he used to bring me gooseberries from the parsonage, whereas all the others beat me." She relapsed into silence for a moment, her countenance swollen by grief, and her poor eyes so scorched by watching that no tears could come from them.
He was forever making queer answers and queerer rhymes which Miss Prue Parsons the school teacher didn't at all approve. But Father said it didn't hurt the children as far as he could see it just entertained them. So the Toyman was answering: "Ask me no questions an' I'll tell you no lies; Gooseberries are sour but make very sweet pies."
You are not exposed to the same trials and dangers as the children of poor emigrants; therefore, you must be very grateful to God, and do all you can to serve and please Him; and when you are able, be kind and good to those who are not as well off as you are." "Are there any other wild fruits, nurse, besides raspberries and strawberries, and currants and gooseberries?"
"'And it means, a bluebell said, stepping perkily out from amidst its fellows, 'that your lover is coming your lover with a troll-le-loll-la and well, if you want to know more ask the gooseberries, the gooseberries that hang on the bushes, or the parsley that grows in the bed, and at that all the flowers and trees shrieked with laughter 'Ta-ta-tra-la-la' and with my ears full of the rude laughter of the wood I awoke.
If the cakes at tea eat short and crisp, they were made by Olivia: if the gooseberry wine was well knit, the gooseberries were of her gathering: it was her fingers which gave the pickles their peculiar green; and in the composition of a pudding, it was her judgment that mix'd the ingredients.
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