92 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. bowing and scraping to the friends who met him, triumphantly car-ried the dangling monster safely through the main streets, and laidhis yellow carcase in Auton kitchen. In those days all the black-berries and huckle-berries were peddled from house to house. Fa-ther… … times it was expected that people would try the berries beforepurchasing them. The way was to scoop up a little heap in thepalm of ones hand, and shake them up a bit to get them well to-gether ; then pour them down the throat like peas in a hopper.Father Auton generally ended these trials by taking…
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