. John Burroughs, boy and man . WAYS AND MEANS IN JOHNS BOYHOOD 73 scarce and expensive (as to-day). Still, every fall MotherBurroughs would put up a jar of pears, pound for pound,though these were served only on special occasions. The boys used to go across the fields in the Octoberdays to Aunt Dollys and gather a peck of pears (plusas many as they could conveniently stow away in a cer-tain pear-shaped receptacle of elastic texture, whichAunt Dolly never saw), picking them very carefully,for their mother wanted the stems left on. Sometimes they went to Aunt Dollys when not sentthere. At such
. John Burroughs, boy and man . WAYS AND MEANS IN JOHNS BOYHOOD 73 scarce and expensive (as to-day). Still, every fall MotherBurroughs would put up a jar of pears, pound for pound,though these were served only on special occasions. The boys used to go across the fields in the Octoberdays to Aunt Dollys and gather a peck of pears (plusas many as they could conveniently stow away in a cer-tain pear-shaped receptacle of elastic texture, whichAunt Dolly never saw), picking them very carefully,for their mother wanted the stems left on. Sometimes they went to Aunt Dollys when not sentthere. At such times, they went by night, moving cau-tiously and quietly, plucking the fruit speedily, regardlessof stems. Such pears were preserved in the hay-mow forfuture use. One moonlight night four of the boys went over therefor a raid on the old seedling pear-tree of which AuntDolly was so stingy. She had planted the tree herselfback in seventeen hundred and something. No wondershe was so near with its fruit! Uncle Eli heard theboys an
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