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The jars , which were globular in shape and which ranged from a quart in capacity up to three and four quarts , cost from fifteen to thirty-five cents apiece . When filled with mitchella vines , they brought from a dollar and a quarter to two dollars . On the day above referred to they set out to gather more vines , and they told the people at home that they were going to `` Dunham 's open '' -- an old clearing beyond our farther pasture , where once a settler named Dunham had begun to clear a farm . The place was nearly two miles from the old Squire 's , and as the girls did not expect to get home until four o'clock , they took their luncheon with them . They hoped to get enough mitchella at the `` open '' to fill fifteen jars , and so took two bushel baskets . Four or five inches of hard-frozen snow was on the ground ; but in the shelter of the young pine and fir thickets that were now encroaching on the borders of the `` open '' the `` cradle knolls '' were partly bare . However , they found less mitchella at Dunham 's open than they had hoped .