MITCHELLA JARS Cold weather was again approaching.

October had been very wet; but bright, calm days of Indian summer followed in November.

And about that time Catherine, Theodora and Ellen had an odd adventure while out in the woods gathering partridge berries.
At the old farm we called the vivid green creeping vine that bears those coral-red berries in November, "partridge berry," because partridge feed on the berries and dig them from under the snow.

Botanists, however, call the vine _Mitchella repens_.

In our tramps through the woods we boys never gave it more than a passing glance, for the berries are not good to eat.