They decided to include all the available young people in Pembroke.
"We might jest as well while we're about it," said Hannah, judiciously.

"There are cherries enough, and the Lord only knows when your father 'll have another freak like this.

I guess it's like an eclipse of the sun, an' won't come again very soon." Within a day or two all the young people had been bidden to the cherry party, and, as Mrs.Berry had foretold, accepted.

Their indignation was not proof against the prospect of pleasure; and, moreover, they all liked Rose and William, and would not have refused on their account.
The week before the party, when the cherries were beginning to turn red, and the robins had found them out, was an arduous one to little Ezra Ray, a young brother of Tommy Ray, who tended in Silas Berry's store.

He was hired for twopence to sit all day in the cherry orchard and ring a cow-bell whenever the robins made excursions into the trees.