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What's the matter, girls?" she asked, as they drew near. "Oh, nothing's the matter," replied Hetty, "but we are getting up a party to go strawberrying. We've heard of a field only two miles from here or at least not much over two miles from the school-house where the berries are very thick.
Did n't you come once in a thunder-storm?" "Yes, one of your barns was struck by lightning and we sat up all night." "Yee, yee. I remember well! Your mother was a beautiful spirit. I could n't forget her." "Yea" is always thus pronounced by the Shakers. "And we came once again, mother and I, and spent the afternoon with you, and went strawberrying in the pasture."
Then presently, as the best thing she could think of to say: "We'll go strawberrying to-morrow, and I'll save you the very best place. Besides, I've got a tart upstairs I've been saving for you, and you can eat it when we go up to bed. I think things taste real nice in bed. Don't you?" "Look here, Gypsy, do you know I love you ever so much?" "You do! Well, isn't that funny?
Nobody iver makes turtle soup half so rich as yours, and your green peas in cream, and asparagus on toast is a rivilation don't you rimimber 'twas Father Michael that said it? I ought to be able to find mushrooms in a few weeks, and I can taste your rhubarb pie over from last year. Gee! But I wish he'd come in strawberrying!
"There," said Jennie, "I haven't heard half you've said; and I guess you've forgotten all about going strawberrying." "I almost know grandma won't be willing," replied Dotty; "we've got company, too; see those ladies in the window." "All the better," replied Jennie, cheerily.
Strawberrying. "Why should we fear youth's draught of joy, If pure, would sparkle less? Why should the cup the sooner cloy Which God has deigned to bless?" The "strawberry picnic" proposed by Alick Steele had been fixed for the following Tuesday should it prove fine.
"I think likely I may go to Boston next week," said she; "and if I do, this is the last time we shall go strawberrying together this summer." "O, is it?" said Dotty. After this the two little creatures trudged on in silence till they reached Mr. Parlin's gate. Jennie ran home in great haste as soon as she was free from her limping companion; and Dotty entered the side-door dripping like a naiad.
And we went strawberrying too, children and mothers and fathers, and young men and maidens, and often now, when passing through the crowded streets of our great city, I feel that I am walking over our old strawberry patch. How sweet those berries were, and how delicious the fish which we caught in the pretty Lakes Calhoun and Harriet, the one named for the great statesman, the other for Mrs.
But in the middle of a word Prudy made a mistake and dropped off to sleep. "No, my dears," said grandma. "I couldn't consent to let you go strawberrying 'up by the Pines' as you call it. It is Mr. Judkins's mowing-field." "But, grandma," said Grace, "Johnny Gordon went there yesterday, and there wasn't any fuss about it." "Then you may be sure Mr. Judkins did not know it," said grandma.
Hence the most acceptable work for me was to be sent strawberrying or raspberrying by Mother; but the real fun was to go fishing up Montgomery Hollow, or over on Rose's Brook, this necessitating a long tramp, and begetting a hunger in a few hours that made a piece of rye bread the most delectable thing in the world; yet a pure delight that never sated.
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