They were bare-footed, wearing knee pants buttoned to calico waists, these being patterned with small horseshoes which the twins had been told by their father would bring them good luck.

They wore cloth caps, and carried tin pails for their berries.

These would be sold to the Pennimans at an agreed price of five cents a quart, and it was Winona's hope that the money thus earned on a beautiful Saturday morning would on Sunday be given to the visiting missionary lately returned from China.
Winona had her doubts, however, chiefly of Wilbur Cowan's keenness for proselyting, on his own income, in foreign lands.

Too often with money in hand, he had yielded to the grosser tyranny of the senses.
The twins ran races in the soft dust of the highway until they reached the first outlying berry patch.

Here they became absorbed in their work.
They were finding well-laden bushes along the fence of what to-day is known as the old graveyard.
Newbern now has a sophisticated new cemetery, with carved marble and tall shafts of polished granite, trimmed shrubs, and garnished mounds, contrasting--as the newer town to the old--with the dingy inclosure where had very simply been inhumed the dead of that simpler day.