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one of the boys, dropping them into his basket with a plump. "A fine yield!" said one of the men. "Did you ever see anything more beautiful than this rich golden brown?" "The sweetest apple that ever grew!" said another. "I don't feel that I've had an apple till November brings these." "It's a wise Providence that saves this sweetest morsel for the last," declared a third. The little tree listened, trembling with happiness. Could it be true? She gazed at the fruit on her heavy branches, and there, like drops of gold, tinged with the sombre violet of November, hung ball after ball of the luscious sweetness. "Oh!" she murmured, "how blest I am to have so much to give, when all the rest of nature is silent and sleeping. How happy I shall be, and how earnestly I will try to bear the sweetest apples ever grown!" At last the apples were all picked and carried to the great bins in the cellar, there to lie mellowing and sweetening for the farmer's use during the long winter months. And the little russet apple tree went to sleep, and took her long nap with the rest. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest, by Jasmine Stone Van Dresser *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE BROWN HEN *** ***** This file should be named 29483.txt or 29483.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/4/8/29483/ Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy
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