I knew a girl who, being sent to pick huckleberries, picked wild gooseberries by the quart, where no one else knew that there were any, because she was accustomed to pick them up country where she came from.

Besides these there were other small berries, maruskins, like the New England dewberries, huckleberries, and whortleberries.

It was astonishing how quickly the cubs learned that game is not to be picked up tamely, like huckleberries, and changed their style of hunting,creeping, instead of trotting openly so that even a porcupine must notice them, hiding behind rocks and bushes and tufts of grass till the precise moment came, and then leaping with the swoop of a goshawk on a ptarmigan.

On lifting this, each boarder found a small heap of solemn black huckleberries.

Perhaps our own woods and fields,in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes.

"Wonder if we can't find some huckleberries hereabouts," suggested Roy.

He picks full pails of the nicest-looking huckleberries.

Well, Buddy and Brighteyes kept on, bounding over the stories and stopping now and then to eat some blackberries or huckleberries or raspberries or a few late, wild strawberries, and pretty soon they came to the back part of the field, where, resting in the shade of some trees, were all the cows.

When Charlton was reached, however, she did observe the women in a shaker, who, with a pail of huckleberries on her arm, was evidently waiting for someone.

I don't know whether huckleberries grow on trees or on huckles, but that will make the tale all the more interesting.

Marie had served the noble guests with pleasant alacrity, passing the rainbow-tinted trout caught as well as broiled by her own hand, and the luscious huckleberries in tasteful baskets of her own braiding, and Tontz Main de Fer, the chivalric companion and friend of La Salle, was moved like Geraint, served by Enid, "to stoop and kiss the dainty little thumb that crossed the trencher."

Can't I give him some of the dried huckleberries?'

For the rest of the day, Richard had sat constantly by Ethelyn, watching the changes of her face, and listening to her as she raved in snatches, now of himself, and the time he saved her from the maddened cow, and now of Frank and the huckleberries, which she said were ripening on the Chicopee hills.

I was set to picking berries to replenish the family larder; but this soon became monotonous, and I appropriated the old grain-sieve, placing it beside the bushes, and pounding the huckleberries into it with a stick; the result was a heterogeneous conglomeration of worms, leaves, bugs, and crushed berries; but I succeeded in eliminating the refuse by throwing the whole mass into a tub of water, and skimming off the risings.

HUCKLEBERRY COMPOTE Pick over a quart of huckleberries or blueberries, wash them and set to boil.

Compote of huckleberries may be used with these dumplings instead of peaches, if so desired.

Fry in a spider quickly and spread with a compote of huckleberries or any other fruit.

Boil until thick, sweeten and flavor with vanilla and spread on top of the cake dough, then sprinkle thickly with huckleberries which have been carefully picked, sugared and sprinkled with ground cinnamon.

HUCKLEBERRY PIE Clean, pick and wash two cups of huckleberries, then drain them.

Lastly, stir in two cups of huckleberries which have been carefully picked over and well dredged with flour.

Be careful in stirring in the huckleberries that you do not bruise them.

Peaches, white cherries, Malaga grapes, huckleberries and apples make nice tartlets.

Pick, clean and wash one pint of huckleberries, drain and lay them thickly on the crust.

HUCKLEBERRY PUDDING Sprinkle four tablespoons of flour over one and one-half pints huckleberries and set aside for half an hour.

Soak one pint crumbed bread in one quart milk; add three tablespoons of sugar, pinch of salt, and the huckleberries.