All of them ate it like big children, and oh, but it was good! Two days more of the same work ended sugar making, but for the next three days Dannie gathered the rapidly diminishing sap for the vinegar barrel.
Then there were more hens ready to set, water must be poured hourly into the ash hopper to start the flow of lye for soap making, and the smoke house must be gotten ready to cure the hams and pickled meats, so that they would keep during warm weather.

The bluebells were pushing through the sod in a race with the Easter and star flowers.

One morning Mary aroused Jimmy with a pull at his arm.
"Jimmy, Jimmy," she cried.

"Wake up!" "Do you mane, wake up, or get up ?" asked Jimmy sleepily.
"Both," cried Mary.

"The larks are here!" A little later Jimmy shouted from the back door to the barn: "Dannie, do you hear the larks ?" "Ye bet I do," answered Dannie.