148 THE APPLE. 



which spring thickly from some horizontal limb, for 

 now and then one lodges there, or in the very midst 

 of an alder-clump, where they are covered by leaves, 

 safe from cows which may have smelled them out. 

 If I am sharp-set, for I do not refuse the blue- 

 pearmain, I fill my pockets on each side ; and as I 

 retrace my steps, in the frosty eve, being perhaps four 

 or five miles from home, I eat one first from this side, 

 and then from that, to keep my balance." 



