Up you go then.

Take your basket and hook it on to the round of the ladder where you are picking, then take each apple carefully, raise it, and it will come off at a point on the stalk where it joins the twig.

Don't tear them out and break the stalks, or they become unsaleable." "I'll mind, sir," I said.

"I know the big Marie Louise pears at home used to come off like that at a joint." "Good!" he cried smiling, and tapping my shoulder.

"When you've picked an apple of course you'll throw it into the basket ?" "Yes, sir." "You'd better not," he cried sharply.