House-Warming
In October I a-graping to the river meadows, and loaded
myself ers more precious for ty and fragrance
too, I admired, t gathe
cranberries, small s of the meadow grass, pearly
and red, whe
smoothe bushel
and to Boston and
Neined to be jammed, to satisfy tastes of lovers of
Nature tcongues of bison out of the
prairie grass, regardless of torn and drooping plant. the
barberrys brilliant fruit
I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling, whe
proprietor and travellers nuts were ripe
I laid up er. It ing at t
season to roam tnut hey
noh a bag on my
sick to open burs
al for t, amid tling of leaves and the loud
reproofs of ts
I sometimes stole, for ted o
contain sound ones. Occasionally I climbed and srees.
tree, w
overs, he
most of its
fruit; t coming in flocks early in the morning and picking
ts out of these
trees to ted tant woods composed wholly of
cnut. ts, as far as t, itute
for bread. Many otitutes might, perhaps, be found.
Digging one day for fis (Apios
tuberosa) on its string, tato of t of
fabulous fruit, if I had ever dug and
eaten in cold, and dreamed it. I had
often since seen its crumpled red velvety blossom supported by the
stems of ots kno to be the same.
Cultivation erminated it. It isaste,
muc o