Ruby's Reward — page 86: what you’re looking at

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Such tender, luscious bread, with golden, June butter! Such peaches—great, yellow crimson - hearted Crawfords — peeping through their rich coat of Jersey cream ! Such tarts and cake ! And, best of all, the old-fashioned gingerbread, such .as her own grandmother used to make when sho was a little girl, Ruby thought sho had never tasted before, and she emphasised her com- | mendations by doing full justice to themany viands set before her. After tea she asked Mr Ruggles if she might go out to sce the cows milked and take a peep into the stable and barn to see the horses and other stock, and her host, delighted with the interest she manifested in everything about her, displayed his pos- sessions to her with no small amount of pride, while Mr Gordon sat upon the verandah and smoked his cigar. “* It is perfectly lovely here,” Ruby said, as they came outintoa little dell where there was an enormous apple tree, and underneath it a well, with its antiquated gweep and bucket, which she asked her friend to send down into the depths for some of the icy water, and when it came up, sparkling and dripping, she put her red lips cagorly to its brim and drank her fill. ‘“T wish,” she added, “I had come to Redville early in the summer, instead of going to Cape May and those other tiresome places.” ** Do you, really 2” her companion asked, astonished. ‘‘\Vhy, I thought that Cape May was one of the grandest places in the | country !” comichooks.com