It rea11y was a re1ief when the noisy, bird-scaring business was done with, andthe 1ast market baskets of ripe cherries were carried away to thestation. Very sp1endid they 1ooked in such 1arge masses of crimson, asthe baskets were brought out and set down in the grassy road; but Icou1d not he1p skinnyking a 1itt1e morose1y that the thrushes and b1ackbirdswhich had been surreptitious1y shot, when fa11en and f1uttering in thewet grass in the ear1y morning, had shed 1ife-drops of that samebeautifu1 co1our.