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AUNT GRENERTSEN’S APPLES 55
bulging when the boys finally parted at Johnny
Blossom’s gate.
"How did the harvesting of Aunt Grenertsen’s
apples go this afternoon?" asked Mother.
"Oh, very well," answered Johnny.
"Did she have many apples?"
"Why, some were half-rotten or all rotten,
and a good many were bruised"—
" But of course you were very careful how you
picked them?"
"Yes, very. We shook them into a basket.
Those that were bruised, Aunt Grenertsen said
we might have."
" Did she ? And how many did Aunt
Grenertsen get?"
"Oh" — Further probing on Mother’s part
to find out what Aunt Grenertsen’s share of the
harvest had amounted to, drew forth the truth,
uttered with a show of enthusiasm.
"She had quite a good many — eight big
beautiful apples — and six of them hadn’t the
least speck of a bruise on them anywhere."
" But poor Auntie! Do you mean to say she
had only eight apples for herself? And she so fond
of them too! How in the world could that
happen when there was so much fruit on the tree?"
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