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Then the boys began to go to the woods to get sugar-water, as they called the maple sap, and they gave whole Saturdays to it as long as the sap would run. It took at least five or six boys to go for sugar-water, and they always had to get a boy whose father had an auger to come along, so as to have something to bore the trees with.
The girls made foray into a little side pocket of bedroom for the changing of shoes, whitening of noses, and various curlicue preambles. "Stella, your hair looks swell!" "Ma plaited it up last night with sugar-water." "Here, just this speck on your lips, just a little to match your cheeks! See all the girls use it." "Ugh no " "There, just a stroke. Fine!
When every one was satisfied, or as nearly satisfied as a boy can ever be, they began to think how they could carry some of the sugar-water home. But by this time it would be pretty late in the afternoon; and they would have to put it off till some other day, when they intended to bring something to dip the water out with; the buckets they had brought were all too big.
Each had five rin, and five rin make one farthing, or rather less, but we will call it a farthing for the sake of round figures. One rin apiece was spent here. The stall was in two divisions: one stocked with delicious little bottles of sugar-water, the other with pieces of candy, tinted bright blue and red and green. Miss Blossom went in for a bottle of sugar-water, and her brother for candies.
Nothing is furnished more nearly approaching food than brandied cherries, but the drinks include all the noxious and innoxious beverages known to the French from coffee, sugar-water or tea to brandy, rum and absinthe. The first time one hears the order, "Bring me an American, waiter, and let him be hot, mind you as hot as one can swallow him," it is a little surprising.
While they drank sugar-water and munched candy, they wandered along looking at the booths, where all sorts of wonders were to be seen booths full of conjurers, acrobats, dancers, of women who could stretch their necks to the length of their arms, or thrust their lips up to cover their eyebrows, and a hundred other curious tricks.
At the hours of breakfast and luncheon he knew them as well as I did he was generally free, and then quite monopolized my company, climbing up my leg on to the table, eating out of my hand, sipping sugar-water out of his own private bowl and, in fact, doing everything I suggested. I did not suggest impossibilities. A friendship should never be strained to breaking-point.
Then, if they could get enough, they meant to boil it down and make sugar-wax. I never knew of any boys who did so. The next thing after going for sugar-water was gathering may-apples, as they called the fruit of the mandrake in that country.
Meanwhile Basil and Francois had obtained the sugar-water, and Lucien having washed his soup-kettle clean, and once more made his boiling stones red-hot, prepared the beverage; and then it was served out in the tin cup, and all partook of it. Norman had drunk the Labrador tea before, and was rather fond of it, but his Southern cousins did not much relish it.
Catherine was in a deathly swoon. I called her, but she did not answer. At midnight I wakened Mr. Goulden, and he dressed himself and came up to our chamber. We gave her some sugar-water, when she revived and got up. I cannot tell you everything; I only know that she sank at my feet and begged me not to abandon her, as if I did it voluntarily! but she was crazed. Mr.
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