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Updated: June 6, 2025
"You sha'n't do it, Marmaduke; they're for old Mrs. Holt, you know." "Come along, then," said her brother; "as long as the baskets are not full the fun isn't over." And soon the children thought so. Such a scrambling to new places as they had then; such a harvest of finest wintergreens as they all gathered together; till Nora took off her sun- bonnet to serve for a new basket.
They drove in the first place for a good distance through her own home grounds, coming out to the public road by the church where Mr. Pyne preached, and near which the wintergreens grew. It looked beautiful this morning, with its ivy all washed and fresh from the rain. Indeed all nature was in a sort of glittering condition.
This is, perhaps, the same as the alpine strawberry, which is said to grow in the mountains of Greece, and thence northward. This was probably the first variety cultivated, though our native species would seem as unpromising a subject for the garden as club-moss or wintergreens.
I’d like to stop and watch him longer but I must be goin’. I come out to hunt fer”—Miranda hesitated for a suitable object before this country-bred woman who well knew that strawberries were not ripe yet—“wintergreens fer Grandma,” she added cheerfully, not quite sure whether they grew around these parts, “and I must be in a hurry. Good-bye! Thank you fer the drink.”
The pony waddled along nicely, but as his legs were none of the longest, their rate of travelling was not precisely of the quickest. Daisy was not impatient. The afternoon was splendid, the dust had been laid by late rains, and Daisy looked at her pail and basket with great contentment. Before she had gone a quarter of a mile from home, she met her little friend of the wintergreens.
Both children came to their feet, one saying, "Marmaduke!" the other, "Mr. Dinwiddie!" "What do two such mature people do when they get together? I should like to know," said the young man as he reached the top. "Talking, sir," said Daisy. "Picking wintergreens," said the other, in a breath. "Talking! I dare say you do.
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