turned to cider. But after the third or fourth freezing and thawing
they will not be found so good.

What are the imported half-ripe fruits of the torrid South to this
fruit matured by the cold of the frigid North? These are those
crabbed apples with which I cheated my companion, and kept a smooth
face that I might tempt him to eat. Now we both greedily fill our
pockets with them,--bending to drink the cup and save our lappets
from the overflowing juice,--and grow more social with their wine.
Was there one that hung so high and sheltered by the tangled
branches that our sticks could not dislodge it?

It is a fruit never carried to market, that I am aware of,--quite
distinct from the apple of the markets, as from dried apple and
cider,--and it is not every winter that produces it in perfection.

"Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye in-habitants of the
land! Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your
fathers? . . .

"That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and
that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that
which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

"Awake, ye drunkards, and weep! and howl, all ye drinkers of wine,
because of the new wine! for it is cut off from your mouth.

"For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number,
whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek-teeth of
a great lion.