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They who live without strawberries, certainly miss one of 

 the best things that this old, thorny, and thistle-cursed globe 

 can produce. Man's folly gave the devil a chance to plant his 

 hoof on Eden, but he was not permitted to stamp it all out of 

 existence, and one of the daintiest little bits remaining is ripe 

 with us about the tenth of June. 



