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m. "Bright Spot!" said the farmer. "Well, we must be all off to the hay-field. You see, there's some grass, Miss Rose, standing ready to be cut, that _can't_ wait; so you'll have to." "What if it wasn't cut?" said Miss Cadwallader pouting. "What if it wasn't cut! -- then the cattle would have nothing to eat next winter, and that would be worse than your wanting strawberries. No -- I'll tell you, -- It'll be a fine afternoon; and you keep yourself quiet, out of the sun, till it gets towards evening; and I'll contrive to spare one of the boys to go with you. The strawberries will be all the riper, and you can get as many as you want in an hour or two." So upon that the party scattered, and the house was deserted to the 'women-folks;' with the exception of little Asahel; and even he was despatched in a few hours to the field with the dinner of his father and brothers. The girls betook themselves to their room, and wore out the long day as they could. It grew to the tempting time of the afternoon. "Here they are!" said Rose who sat at the east window. "Now for it! That farmer is a very good man. I really didn't expect it." "_They?_" said Elizabeth. "Yes -- both the 'boys,' as the farmer calls them." "I should think one might have been enough," said Elizabeth. "Well, there's no harm in having two. Isn't the eldest one handsome?" "I don't know." "You _do_ know." "I don't! for I haven't thought about it." "Do you have to think before you can tell whether a person is handsome?" "Yes; -- before I can tell whether I think he is." "Well, look at him, -- I tell you he has the most splendid eyes." "Rose Cadwallader!" said her cousin laying down her book, "what is it to you or me if all the farmer's sons in the land have splendid eyes?" Elizabeth's eyebrows said it was very little to her. "I like to look at a handsome face anywhere," said Rose pouting. "Come -- will you." Elizabeth did come, but with a very uncompromising set of the said eyebrows. It appeared that everybody was going strawberrying, except Mrs. Landholm and Winthrop; at least the former had not her bonnet on, and the latter was not in the company at all. The children found this out and raised a cry of dismay, which was changed into a cry of entreaty as Winthrop came in. Winthrop was going after fish. But Winifred got hold of his hand, and Asahel withstood him with arguments; and at last Mrs. Landholm put in her gen
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