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they eat rapaciously for it is their rightful prop- 

 erty. 



So it all used to be ! Now we go berrying in 

 the garden and pick our fill of luscious straw- 

 berries in beds, raspberries and blackberries are 

 laid out in rows and staked and grow tall and 

 laden with the best. This modern garden 

 berrying is like a school, for you are ever study- 

 ing how it all came about and what the cost of 

 fertilizers and cultivation and handling for the 

 markets. All so different from what it was 

 back in the '50's up in Vermont. 



How full of choice lessons that day in the old 

 pasture ; how treasured its visions and memories 

 and experiences ! 



"Give me the gospel of the fields and woods — 

 The sermons written in the book of books; 

 The sweet communion of the things of earth 

 Fresh with the warm baptism of the sun. 

 Give me the ofertory of bud and bloom, 

 The perfect caroling of happy birds. 

 Give me the creed of one of God's fair days 

 Wrought in the beauty of its loveliness; 

 And then, the benediction of the stars, 

 His eloquent ministers of the night." 



Aye, give this, all this, but give me more — • 



