Who would give three straws for such a miserable little thing ? Yes , but who would not like to live in such a pretty home as it lives in ; in such a fresh fragrant dark-red cottage , far away in the quiet wood among flowers and green leaves ! Now it was just dinner time , so they all had a dinner of raspberries and cream . ` Be careful with the sugar , Otto , ' said the big sister ; but Otto 's plate was like a snowdrift in winter , with just a little red under the snow . Soon after dinner the big sister said : ` Now we have eaten up the raspberries and we have none left to make preserve for the winter ; it would be fine if we could get two baskets full of berries , then we could clean them this evening , and to-morrow we could cook them in the big preserving pan , and then we should have raspberry jam to eat on our bread ! ' ` Come , let us go to the wood and pick , ' said Lisa . ` Yes , let us , ' said Aina . ` You take the yellow basket and I will take the green one . ' ` Do n't get lost , and come back safely in the evening , ' said the big sister . ` Greetings to the raspberry worm , ' said Otto , mockingly . ` Next time I meet him I shall do him the honour of eating him up . ' So Aina and Lisa went off to the wood . Ah ! how delightful it was there , how beautiful ! It was certainly tiresome sometimes climbing over the fallen trees , and getting caught in the branches , and waging war with the juniper bushes and the midges , but what did that matter ? The girls climbed well in their short dresses , and soon they were deep in the wood . 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 XXXXX the ground with the largest , dark red , ripe raspberries , such a wealth of berries as two little berry pickers had never found before !
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