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What beauties they seerew in the shady

parts under the leaves, were of a delicate green, the ones I had picked

from out in the full sunshine were dark and ruddy and bronzed! How they

clustered together too, out here in the top of the tree, so thickly that

it seerees I reached up and up where I could not take the basket,

and thrust the apples into my breast and pockets One I had a

tre a little lower to where ain It was a splendid

fellow, the biggest yet, and growing right at the top of a twig

It see on by the

branch, and standing on the very top round of the ladder, and I

hesitated Still I did not like to be beaten, and with the branch

bending I held on and went up and up, till I stood right at the top of

the ladder, and then cautiously raising my hand I was about to reach up

at and try to pick the apple, when so induced me to turn my head

and look in the direction of Shock's tree