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Updated: May 7, 2025
These berries are a great blessing to every one, besides forming abundant food for the broods of young quails and partridges; squirrels, too, of every kind eat them. There are blackberries also, Lady Mary; and some people call them thimbleberries." "Nurse, I have heard mamma talk about blackberries."
They ain't quite so thick as wild thimbleberries. An' Charlotte ain't got any money herself, an' her father ain't got any to build a house for her. I'd like to know what he's got to say about it?" Mrs. Barnard put up her apron and began to weep helplessly. "Don't, mother," said Charlotte, in an undertone. But her mother began talking in a piteous wailing fashion.
But he returned to camp without having fired a shot, and with only a capful of thimbleberries as spoil. "Didn't you see anything?" Rube questioned. "Oh, yes," said Kiddie, "I saw plenty a big-horn antelope that was too far away for a shot, a herd of black-tail deer, still farther away, a family of rattlesnakes, a skunk, and a racoon.
Thar's a bush 'most breakin' down with its weight of ripe and juicy thimbleberries, back of the old cedar tree. Bees have been at 'em." The next snare they visited was empty. In another a woodgrouse was caught, and in yet another a fox cub. Kiddie's steel traps were set farther away. He went first to the one about which he had been so particular. "Gee!" he exclaimed. "It's sprung! Bait's taken.
Prim spinsters eye him acridly, as a man given over to "shif'less" ways, and wives set him up, like a lurid guidepost, before husbands prone to lapse from domestic thrift; but the dogs smile at him, and children, for whom he is ever ready to make kite or dory, though all his hay should mildew, or to string thimbleberries on a grass spear while supper cools within, tumble merrily at his heels.
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