I always had an idea that a miser was thin." Then she slipped away, and presently whispered to another girl what a mistaken speech she had made, and they put their heads together with soft, averted giggles.
The girls had brought packages of luncheon in their baskets, which they had removed to make space for the cherries, and left with Mrs.
Berry in the tavern.

At noon they sent the young men for them, and prepared to have dinner at a little distance from the trees where they had been picking, where the ground was clean.

William and Rose also went up to the tavern, and Rose beckoned to Barney as she passed him.

"Don't you want to come ?" she whispered, as he followed hesitatingly; "there's something to carry." When the party returned, Mrs.Berry was with them, and she and Rose bore between them a small tub of freshly-fried hot doughnuts.

Mrs.
Berry had utterly refused to trust it to the young men.