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"I should think it would spoil persimmons to be frozen. I never heard of anything being better because it had been out in the frost. I wonder what persimmons are like, anyway." Ruby had never seen any persimmons in her life, as they did not grow near her home, and she had a vague idea that they were like apples, only smaller, perhaps.
It was pleasant, too, to see the soldiers at fives, or the wickets up and the cricket-balls of tightly rolled rag ribbons flying, or fellows at leap-frog, all much encouraged by reason of having better diet, and no need now to shrink their stomachs with green persimmons or to live without rum. As to McLane and our restless Wayne, they were about as quiet as disturbed wasps.
I didn't see anything in it then but revenge; but afterward I saw how we might spend some money to a possible advantage." Caleb's eyes had grown narrow. "I reckon I'm sort o' dull, Buddy; what-all did you do?" "Wired the disgruntled one that there was a letter and a check in the mail for him, to be followed by another and a bigger if his pole proved long enough to reach the persimmons."
Monkey Stallings hardly knew whether that, was intended for a compliment or not, but he laughed because the others did. "All the same I had the longest pole that knocked down the persimmons," he asserted. "I gave that bunch the biggest scare of their lives.
"That man," said a Lieutenant, "when he saw our Brigadier coming up, presented him with a couple of persimmons very politely. But it was no go; the General ordered him under guard and eat the persimmons as part of the punishment." "Well," rejoined the Colonel, "we'll let you off with guard duty for the night." No. 2. "Killing a shoat while the Regiment halted at noon."
But when October is reached, the memory of these things is afar off, and the glory of the days is a perpetual surprise. I sally out in the morning with the ostensible purpose of gathering chestnuts, or autumn leaves, or persimmons, or exploring some run or branch. It is, say, the last of October or the first of November.
It did not feel as if it would, and she could not be persuaded to taste a ripe persimmon, for she had had enough of persimmons. She emptied her basket out, and did not want to touch another, though the girls assured her that the ripe ones were delicious. She was very glad when at last the girls had gathered as many as they wanted, and they were ready to go home again.
This tree stood in a field that belonged to a friend of Miss Chapman's, and he always kept it just for the girls, and was willing to send out his man to shake the tree and knock the persimmons down for them, if Jack Frost had not done it already.
Taylor said, laughing, "he didn't. And let this be a warning to you, young man. Don't you go up a tree for persimmons or cherries or other fruits whatsomever, agin the advice of your elders and betters." "No, sir, Mr. Taylor," I said, "I never will."
His gaze roved out of the window toward the dark line of the woods beyond, where the frost still glistened on the trees and where he knew the persimmons were hanging ripe. Jim was present at the afternoon service also, for it was a great day; and again, he was preoccupied. He started and clasped his hands together until the bones cracked, when a dog barked somewhere out on the hill.
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