They were having a pleasant vacation together.
Marion looked inquiringly into the landlady's face.

No doubt she was thinking the mountain birds were very greedy to eat up all the cherries and not leave one for the poor woman to can.
"Our birds always eat some of our cherries too," she said, "but they always leave us plenty." "There were bushels left on our trees," observed the landlady's daughter.

"We had all we wanted, mother.

We couldn't possibly have used the rest if the birds had not eaten them.

We had a cellar full of canned cherries left over from the year before, you remember, and that is the way it is nearly every year." "Yes, yes, I know," answered her mother impatiently; "but for all that I don't believe in letting the birds have everything." "I never begrudge a bird what it eats," commented the professor.