Sharp County record., 1885-07-09
BERRYlNG AND FISHING.
The Laughing Time Which Excited the
Wonder of Two Little Girls.


Wonder of Two Little Girls.
Two little girls, with checked sun
bonnets on their heads and tin pals IN
their hands, were walking along the
sidewalk of certain town in Maine.
One was named Lizzie Pulsifer, and the
other Hannah Cooke. Lizzie was eight
years old; so was Hannah. | would
mention the name of the town, but
they are both women now, with little
girls of their own, and they might not
ike to be laughed at. Did | tell you it
was a spring morning? Well it was in
early May. When they reached Fred
Starke's house, Fred, who was out in
the yard, screamed:
Good morning, girls! where are you
going?"
Were going blueberrying," said
Hannah.
"Ha! ha! ha!' was Fred'S reply. 81
hope you'll get your pals full. Blue
Deriving! Ha! hal ha"
"WelI, l think we shall, replied Liz
zie. 81 know where they used to be
very thick"
You do" said Fred. 81 hope they
will be thick now. You'd better go
fishing. That's what I'm going to do. "
And he turned away still laughing
heartily.
When they left Fred the girls walked
along quietly again until they reached
the railroad
1--WE shall have to walk along on the
track a little ways" said Hannah; 'but
we can watch for trains
They walked some time, stepping
from sleeper to sleeper, until Lizzie saw
smoke in the distance. Hannah said it
was train coming, and that they must
hurry off the track as fast as they could.
So, long before the train arrived, they
had climbed.a fence and were in pretty
pasture on the edge of the woods
They looked around for blueberries.
They found plenty of lovely pink-and-
white arbutus (or, as they called them,
May-flowerS), and great punches of
purple violets, and white houstOnias
with their yellow eyes, and ground nut
blossoms; and on bushes which looked,
Hannah said, very much like ,blueberry
bushes, they found pretty white bell
shaped flowers, just tinted with pink,
but they couldn't find any blueberries.
They picked the young checkerberry
leaves which were just peeping out of the
ground; and at last, getting bolder, they
strayed little way into the woods and
gathered some lovely ferns. But not a
blueberry was to be seen.
ats queer" said Hannah. 81 won
der where the blueberries are | know
this is the place where they used to be
SO thick, cause that's the very stump
mother climbed over. She couldn't climb
the fence anywhere else, you know,
cause twas so high. But we'll keep
on searching"
Just then the town-clock, in the dis
tance, struck.
"Oh, it's eleven O'clock" exclaimed
Hannah, who had counted each stroke
aloud, land mother told us TO be home
at twelve. We shall have to start,
and we haven't got single blueberry.
What do you s'pose made your Aunt
Sarah laugh so, when | asked her if
we could stay till we got our pals
full?"
"Idon' tknow," said Lizzie, thought
fully; land Fred laughed, too, when we
told him we were going blueberrying.
What was he laughing atp"
"Oh! / don't know, I'm sure" said
Hannah; 'he's always laughing. But
l don't care. We've had good time,
any way"
They climbed the fence again, and
found themselves close to the ditch by
the side of the railroad. The spring
rains had filled it with water. They
could not resist the temptation to take
off their shoes and stockings and wade
in it. They were having the best of
time vi ali then, when LIZZIE exclaimed:
..'Hannie, we might catch some fish.
See! there's one. Let's try.n
1--WE haven't any hooks" objected
Hannah.
"Well, we might hold our pals and
catch some;" and Lizzie held hers
against the running water, and, sure
enough, she caught a little one that was
coming down with the current, "Oh,
Hannie! perhaps we can get enough
to fry for dinner,' she cried,