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The pictures in my memory, save those of the snug winter rooms already referred to, are all of a beautiful Valley, embowered in green, radiant with sunshine each day live-long with delight. There was first of all in the spring, when the chorus of returning song-birds began, the gathering of maple-sap, still sacred to boyhood.
From the woman's left hand dangled an old tin lantern containing a scrap of tallow candle, whose meagre gleam flickered hither and thither apprehensively among the huge shadows of the darkening wood. In her right hand the woman carried a large tin bucket, half filled with fresh-run maple-sap.
"A species of ash grows in Sicily that yields a substance called manna which used to be valuable as a medicine, and this manna is obtained in the same way as maple-sap by making holes or incisions in the bark of the tree. At the proper season the persons whose business it is to collect manna begin to make incisions, one after the other, up the stem.
The wood, too, is very hard and durable, and, as it takes a fine polish, it is used for making many ornamental articles." "And where does the olive-oil come from?" asked Clara. "Do they make holes in the tree for it, as they do for maple-sap?"
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