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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 19 [[underlined]] Cranberry Bog [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] Sept. 18. [[/underlined]] Wading through the cranberry bog is hard work for the marsh grass is thick & both it and the cranberries are bedding in deep sphagnum, but it is now one of the autumn pleasures. It is a broad 'meadow' - acres at each end are mowed & as you walk over the sphagnum you see pitiful looking pitcher plants shorn of their beauty by the mowing machines. The cranberry bog lies between the Outlet woods & the farm & ^ [[insertion]] its dryer [[/insertion]] woodland. It is a meadow ^ [[insertion]] in [[insertion]] whose high wild grass are patches of royal fern - now golden brown & islets of sweet gale ^ [[insertion]] bushes [[/insertion]] where you try to flush short-billed marsh wrens. Scattered ilex bushes whose berries glow scarlet in the sun & sapling maples getting ready to turn also dot the expanse. The headed grass now has brown nut heads & yellow stems. Down inside the grass are the beautiful heathery cranberry stems with their hanging [[strikethrough]] glown [[/strikethrough]] jewels. From a delicate pink flush the cranberries are now deepening to real cranberry color. Some have been frosted (2 nights about 20°) & are soft to the touch. The berries are sour but you eat them as you do halfripe apples under a tree, with the feeling of the wholesomeness of natures proffered foods - it is an acid that is tonic to the system.
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not sure how to show the mark underneath "Some" in the text about the frost.[[I chose to ignore it as it is clear what her intent was- simple correction of a misstroke of the pen]]