"Oh, dear! The sun's shining!" he exclaimed.
"Well, isn't that a good thing?" Bert wanted to know.
"Maybe," admitted Harry. "But if it had been raining we might have
gone fishing. As it is, I shall have to work."
"What doing?" Bert wanted to know.
"Help pick apples in the orchard. We are shipping them away this year,
and they have to be picked, and packed in barrels."
"I'll help you," offered Bert, and, after breakfast, the two boys went
out to the big orchard, where Uncle Daniel and some of his men already
were busy.
The apples were picked by men standing on long ladders that reached up
into the trees. Each filled a canvas bag with apples. These bags hung
around their necks, and when one was full, the man came down the
ladder with it. This was so the apples would not be bruised, for a
bruised apple rots very quickly, and even one rotten apple in a barrel
full, will soon make many bad ones.
"Can we pick apples on a ladder?" asked Bert.
"No, that's a little too dangerous for small boys," said Uncle Daniel.
"But you and Harry may pick those you can reach from the ground.
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