[The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories CHAPTER 11 14/34
When she got tired of the game at last, she rose from almost under my hand and flew aloft with the rush and whir of a shell and lit on the highest limb of a great tree and sat down and crossed her legs and smiled down at me, and seemed gratified to see me so astonished. I was ashamed, and also lost; and it was while wandering the woods hunting for myself that I found a deserted log cabin and had one of the best meals there that in my life-days I have eaten.
The weed-grown garden was full of ripe tomatoes, and I ate them ravenously, though I had never liked them before.
Not more than two or three times since have I tasted anything that was so delicious as those tomatoes.
I surfeited myself with them, and did not taste another one until I was in middle life.
I can eat them now, but I do not like the look of them.
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