About four o'clock
Tut ! Tut ! '' and wishing that the big owl would fly away , but the big owl did not move , and just stared straight ahead with his great glass eyes . About four o'clock Widow Blunt put on her sunbonnet and her cotton gloves with the fingers cut off , and with an eight-quart tin pail with strips of zinc soldered across the bottom of it , she climbed the stepladder and picked eight quarts of ripe red cherries from her early cherry tree , and the big stuffed owl watched her with his great glass eyes , and never said a word . Then the Widow Blunt took her eight-quart pail full of ripe red cherries into her kitchen and set it on the kitchen table , then she went back to where her stepladder was standing under the cherry tree , and climbed her stepladder once more and untied the stuffed owl , and put him under her arm , and carried him back to her parlor and put him on the mantelpiece and set the big glass dome over him , to keep the dust off . Widow Blunt carried her stepladder back into her woodhouse , then she hung her sunbonnet on a nail behind the kitchen door , and put her cotton gloves in the secretary drawer , where she would know where to find them when the berry-picking season came . Widow Blunt then looked out of the kitchen window , and saw Robert Robin picking one of her ripe red cherries .