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Both she and Olly went to bed after their first day at Ravensnest with their little hearts full of happiness , and their little heads full of plans . To-morrow they were to go to Aunt Emma 's , and perhaps the day after that father would take them to bathe in the river , and nurse would let them go and help Becky and Tiza call the cows . Holidays _ were _ nice ; still geography lessons were nice too sometimes , thought Milly sleepily , just as she was slipping , slipping away into dreamland , and in her dreams her faithful little thoughts went back lovingly to Fräulein 's kind old face , and to the capes and islands and seas she had been learning about a week ago . -LSB- Illustration : `` The flowers Milly gathered for her mother '' -RSB- The next morning Mr. and Mrs. Norton were busy indoors till about twelve o'clock ; and the children wandered about the garden with nurse , finding out many new nooks and corners , especially a delightful steep path which led up and up into the woods , till at last it took the children to a little brown summer-house at the top , where they could sit and look over the trees below , away to the river and the hay-fields and the mountains . And between the stones and this path grew the prettiest wild strawberries , only , as Milly said , it was not much good looking for them yet , for there were so few red ones you could scarcely get enough to taste what they were like . But in a week or two , she and Olly planned that they would take up a basket with some green leaves in it , and gather a lot for father and mother -- enough for regular dessert -- and some wild raspberries too , for these also grew in the wood , to the great delight of the children , who had never seen any before . They began to feel presently as if it would be nothing very extraordinary to find trees covered with barley sugar or jam tarts in this wonderful wood .