There were plenty of bilberries and elder berries , but no raspberries . They wandered on and on , and at last they came ... No , it could not be true ! ... they came to a large raspberry wood . The wood had been on fire once , and now raspberry bushes had grown up , and there were raspberry bushes and raspberry bushes as far as the eye could see . Every bush was weighted to the ground with the largest , dark red , ripe raspberries , such a wealth of berries as two little berry pickers had never found before ! Lisa picked , Aina picked . Lisa ate , Aina ate , and in a little while their baskets were full . ` Now we shall go home , ' said Aina . ` No , let us gather a few more , ' said Lisa . So they put the baskets down on the ground and began to fill their pinafores , and it was not long before their pinafores were full , too . ` Now we shall go home , ' said Lina . ` Yes , now we shall go home , ' said Aina . Both girls took a basket in one hand and held up her apron in the other and then turned to go home . But that was easier said than done . They had never been so far in the great wood before , they could not find any road nor path , and soon the girls noticed that they had lost their way . The worst of it was that the shadows of the tress were becoming so long in the evening sunlight , the birds were beginning to fly home , and the day was closing in . At last the sun went down behind the pine tops , and it was cool and dusky in the great wood . The girls became anxious but went steadily on , expecting that the wood would soon end , and that they would see the smoke from the chimneys of their home . After they had wandered on for a long time it began to grow dark . At last they reached a great plain overgrown with bushes , and when they looked around them , they saw , as much as they could in the darkness , that they were among the same beautiful raspberry bushes from which they had picked their baskets and their aprons full .
Then they were so tired XXXXX they sat down on a stone and began to cry . '
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