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Updated: May 10, 2025
No, I do not live in a pen; I do not want to; but surely I might, if once in a while I did not go leafing, did not escape now and then from my little penned-in, daily round into the wide, sweet woods, my ancestral home. I was picking strawberries down by the woods when some one called out from the road: "Say, ain't they a litter of young foxes somewheres here in the ridges?"
And if the pig in his heart is still a wild boar, no less are we at times wild savages in our hearts. Anyhow, for one day in the fall I want to go leafing. I want to give my pig a taste of acorns, and a big pile of leaves to dive so deep into that he cannot see his pen.
"The leaves are ever so pretty," said Malcolm "so many of 'em on one stem! and the green looks as if it was just made." "You mean by that, I suppose," replied Miss Harson, "that it is a very fresh tint; and we are seeing it in its first beauty now. This is the locust tree, and May is its time for leafing out in the tenderest of greens.
Here the scent of watercress vied with the hemlock and cedar, for its place as nature's perfume, and only such mingling of wild ferns, trailing arbutus, budding bush, and leafing vine, could produce the aroma of incense that just then permeated the woody glen. "Don't let the girls get too far away from us," cautioned Madeline.
As to the dance, it will be a piazza affair, if the evening is fine the festive wind-up of an exciting day, our White Birch anniversary which we celebrate with rites and symbolic dancing, in honor of our patron, our woodland lady, the leafing birch tree." "How lovely; per-fect-ly love-ly!" flowed from the visitors, both, in a silvery ripple.
Leafing over the pages he announced: "Busted to smithereens, and she cost me exactly eleven thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars and nineteen cents! Oh, what a lot of money!" And the expression on his face was so painful that Dick felt inclined to laugh, solemn as the occasion was. But he restrained himself. "Where's that fellow Larson?" asked Uncle Ezra.
The blueberry-patches spread a pale green glimmer of blossoms, like a sheen of satin in a high light; young ferns curled beside the road like a baby's fingers grasping at life; the trees, which were late in leafing, also reached out towards the sun little rosy clasping fingers whereby to hold fast to the motherhood of the spring.
Time flew brightly for some days, as an early spring, having poured its thousand rivulets out of the melting snows, began to dry the soil and instil into the willows and birches the essences that soon cover them with refreshing green, and earth suddenly teems with leafing and flying life, with odor of buds and laughing variety of shade and sun. I, as is my nature, was deeply under the spell.
"Wait till the cherries are ripe," said she; and so the little people waited, and watched it through its leafing and blossoming such sheets of blossom, white as snow! till the fruit began to show, and grew large and red on every bough. At last one morning the mother said, "Children, should you like to help gather the cherries to-day?"
"Her nain sel' will not pe requiring her sairvices, Mistress Partan; she'll pe leafing tat to you, if you'll excuse me," said Duncan. "Deed, ye're richt there! Ha! ha! ha!" Malcolm judged it time to interfere, and stepped into the cottage. Duncan was seated in the darkest corner of the room, with an apron over his knees, occupied with a tin lamp.
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