"It gets in the shadow of Wut-a-qut-o once in a while." "The grass is kept very fresh here," said Rufus.

"But the strawberry vines are all over in it." So it was proved.

The valley was not a smooth level as it had looked from the river, but broken into little waves and hollows of ground; in parts, near the woods, a good deal strewn with loose rocks and grown with low clumpy bushes of different species of cornus, and buckthorn, and sweetbriar.

In these nooks and hollows, and indeed over the whole surface of the ground the vines ran thick, and the berries, huge, rich and rare, pretended to hide themselves, while the whole air was alive with their sweetness.
The party landed and scattered with cries of delight far and near over the valley.

Even Elizabeth's composure gave way.