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Three Men on the Bummel

CHAPTER XII
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Most things of that kind grow wild, and are to be had for the picking.

It is difficult to keep to any programme when walking through the Vosges, the temptation on a hot day to stop and eat fruit generally being too strong for resistance.

Raspberries, the most delicious I have ever tasted, wild strawberries, currants, and gooseberries, grow upon the hill-sides as black-berries by English lanes.

The Vosges small boy is not called upon to rob an orchard; he can make himself ill without sin.

Orchards exist in the Vosges mountains in plenty; but to trespass into one for the purpose of stealing fruit would be as foolish as for a fish to try and get into a swimming bath without paying.


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