They used them as a flavor for candy, ice-cream, puddings, cakes, and I don't know what else.

They made summer drinks of it, and it was used as a perfume for home-made hair-washes and tooth-powder.

So Judith and I and a girl named Dorcas Stone, who was a friend of ours, went to work gathering teaberries in the woods.

We worked early and late, and got enough to trade off at the store for the ten yards of chintz with which that gown is made.
"As for the making of it, Judith and I did all that ourselves.

Dorcas Stone might be willing enough to go with us to pick berries, but when she found what was to be bought with them, she drew out of the business.
She was not a girl who was particularly sharp about seeing things herself, or keeping people from seeing through her; but she wanted to marry Matthias Butterwood, and when she found Judith was to have a new gown she would have nothing to do with it, which was a pity, for she was a very fine sewer, especially as to gathers.
"We cut the gown from some patterns we got from a magazine; I fitted it, and we both sewed.