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`` Nor the other trout brook where Ad caught the mink , nor the wood-chuck wall , nor the bog where the big mud-turtle lives , nor the blackberry hill , nor ` the fort . ' Why , he has n't seen hardly anything , yet , '' Wealthy added . `` O well , he will have time to see it all , for he is going to live here , you know , '' said Theodora . `` But now we really ought to go home , for we must help Gram get up the dinner , and it is past noon already , I think . '' We took our way leisurely up through the fields where the wild strawberries were in bloom , great patches of them , half an acre in extent , white with the lowly blossoms . The girls carefully marked certain places , so as to know where to come early in July , when the grass was grown tall . `` Gramp does not quite like to have us come into the tall grass , after strawberries , '' Theodora remarked , `` because we trample the grass down and make it difficult to mow ; but Gram always sends us out and sometimes goes herself . ''