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After Apple-picking Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes<\/h3>\n

Comprehension:<\/span><\/p>\n

A. Answer the following questions in one sentence each:<\/span><\/p>\n

Question 1.
\nWhy does the poet say that he is done with apple-picking?
\nAnswer:
\nThe poet says that he is done with apple-picking though there are a few still to be picked, because he starts feeling drowsy.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nWhat meaning is conveyed through the expression, \u201cinstep arch keeps the ache\u201d?
\nAnswer:
\nThe apple picker still feels the ache in his foot as if he is standing on a ladder.<\/p>\n

Question 3.
\nWhat does the poet see in his dreams?
\nAnswer:
\nThe narrator sees the harvest in his dream.<\/p>\n

Question 4.
\nWhich phrase in the poem suggests that the poet has had bumper harvest?
\nAnswer:
\n\u2018The rumbling sound
\nOf load on load of apples coming in.\u2019
\n\u2018For I have had too much Of apple picking.\u2019
\n\u2018Of the great harvest I myself desired.
\nThere were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch\u2019.<\/p>\n

Question 5.
\nWhat helps the poet in balancing his weight on the ladder-round?
\nAnswer:
\nThe instep arch of his feet.<\/p>\n

Question 6.
\nWhat is the meaning of \u201cfleck of russet\u201d?
\nAnswer:
\n\u2018Fleck of russet\u2019 means a very small area of reddish brown colour depicting the colour of the apple.<\/p>\n

B. Answer in three or four sentences each:<\/span><\/p>\n

Question 1.
\nWhy can’t the poet rub strangeness from his sight?
\nAnswer:
\nAt the end of a long day of apple-picking, the narrator is tired and thinks about his day. He has felt sleepy and even trance-like since the early morning, when he looked at the apple trees through a thin sheet of ice that he lifted from the drinking trough. Even in the morning, he was not able to rub strangeness from his sight. So it is clear that his feeling of drowsiness is not the outcome of physical exhaustion alone.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nWhat is implied by the phrase, \u201cjust some human sleep\u201d?
\nAnswer:
\nHuman sleep would be the sleep in the night that follows the activities of the day. This is necessary for us to get over the fatigue of the physical work. But the speaker is not sure whether it is the normal sleep of a tired man or the deep winter sleep of death. Significantly, even as he falls into a complete sleep, the narrator is unable to discern if he is dying or merely sleeping; the two are merged completely in the essence of the oncoming winter, and Frost refuses to tell the reader what actually happens.<\/p>\n

Question 3.
\nWhat does the repeated reference to \u2018sleep\u2019 in the poem imply?
\nAnswer:
\n\u2018Sleep\u2019 in the poem operates at two levels – natural sleep and death. The hoary grass and winter suggest death. But the narrator does not know if the death will be renewed by spring in a few months or if everything will stay buried under mindless snow for all eternity. In other words, the speaker doesn\u2019t know whether his life is coming to an end or whether it is the usual weariness of physical work.<\/p>\n

Question 4.
\n\u201cFor I have had too much
\nOf apple-picking: I am overtired Of the great harvest \/ myself desired.\u201d
\nExplain the above lines.
\nAnswer:
\nAfter a hard day of work, the apple farmer is completely fatigued but is still unable to escape the mental act of picking apples. He still sees the apples in front of him. He admits that he himself had desired and dreamt of the great harvest, but is now overwhelmed by the number and leaves a few on the branches without picking.<\/p>\n

Question 5.
\n\u201cFor all
\nThat struck the earth,
\nNo matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
\nWent surely to the cider-apple heap
\nAs of no worth. \u201d
\nWhat worth is the poet referring to?
\nAnswer:
\nThe speaker says that the apples should not be allowed to fall, and have to be picked carefully. He knows that the minute apples fall, they lose their value. They are considered to have no worth and are sent to the cider crusher.<\/p>\n

C. Answer the following questions in four to six sentences each:<\/span><\/p>\n

Question 1.
\nGive the central idea of the poem.
\nAnswer:
\nIn some respects, this poem is simply about apple-picking. After a hard day of work, the apple farmer is completely fatigued but is still unable to escape the mental act of picking apples: he still sees the apples in front of him, still feels the ache in his foot as if he is standing on a ladder, still bemoans the fate of the flawless apples that fall to the ground and must be consigned to the cider press. Yet, as in all of Frost\u2019s poems, the narrator\u2019s everyday act of picking apples also speaks of a more metaphorical discussion of seasonal changes and death.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nJustify the title of the poem, \u2018After Apple-picking\u2019.
\nAnswer:
\nThe poem \u2018After Apple-picking\u2019 is written in the first person; the speaker is someone who has worked long and nard but is now on the verge of being overwhelmed by fatigue and the depth of the experience of picking apples. The details of-his activity are recalled in contemplating the dream he expects to have.<\/p>\n

The poem is filled with images drawn from the speaker\u2019s experience with the pastoral world; the events he remembers all took place on a farm, specifically in an apple orchard. He has climbed a ladder to pick apples; even when he has finished, he can almost feel the rungs of the ladder beneath his feet. The smell of the apples is pervasive, and he can still hear the sound of the wagons carrying loads of apples into the barn.<\/p>\n

Frost intends to evoke a mood of hesitation and drowsiness, as if the speaker were about to drop off to sleep and is no longer fully in control of his thoughts. He does this in the framework of apple-picking. Thus the title is highly appropriate.<\/p>\n

Question 3.
\nThe poet has achieved a bumper crop at the cost of considerable physical and mental exhaustion. Elaborate.
\nAnswer:
\nThe speaker finds that the large harvest for which he had wished has become excessive: He has \u201chad too much\/ Of apple picking.\u201d He recalls the details of the work with pleasure, but he is half afraid of the sleep he feels coming on. On the edge of sleep, he remembers not only the ripe apples successfully picked but also those that fell and were considered damaged and had to be sent to the cider mill.<\/p>\n

He knows that his sleep will be troubled by the failures more than by the successes. He is not sure about the nature of the sleep he is about to drop into – whether it will be ordinary steep, more like a hibernation, or more like death. All the sensory images are pleasant, but they have become distorted, as if the pleasant dream could become a nightmare. Thus we see that even the bumper crop is at the cost of considerable physical and mental exhaustion.<\/p>\n

Additional Questions:<\/span><\/p>\n

Question 1.
\nWhy does the speaker think that his dreams will be ‘troubled7
\nAnswer:
\nThough Robert Frost insists that the poem is written purely in context of a rural aspect and it shows nothing more than the beauty of nature prevailing upon human mind, intellect and will, yet the poem does allude to certain extended meanings. Hence when the speaker says that his sleep will trouble his dreams, it leads to multiple interpretations. The sleep of the peasant could either be related to death or to intoxication since the apple picker is \u2018drowsing\u2019 under the appeasing influence of mighty nature, if it is the human sleep, it is relief from physical exhaustion. But if it is death, apple-picking which is not complete can refer to unfulfilled promises, tasks, dreams and talents.<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nHow does the woodchuck\u2019s sleep differ from \u201cJust some human sleep\u201d?
\nAnswer:
\nA woodchuck is an animal that hibernates during the winter and then reawakens during the spring. The speaker is saying that his sleep will be longer than that because he will actually be dead and never reawake.<\/p>\n

Question 3.
\nWhat does the empty barrel signify?
\nAnswer:
\nThe empty barrel as well as the \u2018magnified apples\u2019 refer to human desires which may never be satiated to their fill. Sometimes, one may even have achieved lifelong goals and targets, but life does not stay longer to support one to relish the fruits of one’s labour. However, if the empty barrel implies only the unfulfilled desire, the magnified apples could also imply the lust of man which can never be satisfied.<\/p>\n

Question 4.
\nWhat does \u2018sleep\u2019 mean here?
\nAnswer:
\nPhysical fatigue, mental emptiness and death.<\/p>\n

Question 5.
\nWhat does the \u2018pane of glass\u2019 refer to?
\nAnswer:
\nPane of glass actually refers to the thin sheet of ice that the speaker gathers from the trough. He looks at the world through this pane of glass he skims from the trough. He holds on to it until it melts.<\/p>\n

Question 6.
\nWhat is the significance of the ladder in the poem?
\nAnswer:
\nThe ladder brings in religious connotation to the poem as it is said that it is pointing toward heaven. The religious overtone alludes to the story of Jacob’s ladder in the Book of Genesis.<\/p>\n

Question 7.
\nWhat does the speaker mean when he says, \u2018I am done\u2019?
\nAnswer:
\nThe speaker states that he is going to stop picking apples.<\/p>\n

Question 8.
\nInterpret the lines:
\n\u2018Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
\nThe scent of apples: I am drowsing off. \u2019
\nAnswer:
\nIt is night time, and the speaker is very tired. He compares his approaching sleep to an \u2018essence\u2019 or smell that wafts through the winter night. Not surprisingly, this essence smells like apples. This might mean that either he is falling asleep on his ladder in the orchard as night falls, or he is in bed, just thinking about being out in the orchard. This ambivalence continues throughout the poem.<\/p>\n

Question 9.
\nWhat is the speaker\u2019s state of mind as seen in the poem \u2018After Apple-picking\u2019?
\nAnswer:
\nThe speaker’s overwhelming state of mind in \u2018After Apple-picking\u2019 is tiredness and reflection. He was already tired in the beginning of the day when he took a drink and is even more exhausted after a long day spent picking apples. Physically, he is sore and worn out. His instep still feels the imprint of the ladder rung that he spent all day standing upon.<\/p>\n

Question 10.
\nWhat symbolism can be found in the poem \u2018After Apple-picking\u2019?
\nAnswer:
\nSymbolism threads through Robert Frost\u2019s poem \u2018After Apple-picking\u2019. Apples, the symbol of life and the downfall of life, are the topics of the poem from start to finish. The ladder is one of the first symbols encountered in the poem. At the beginning of the poem, the ladder is pointed \u201cToward heaven still.\u201d Later in the poem, the poet speaks of how the rungs of the ladder can be felt in the bottoms of his feet and how weary he is of the apple harvest. This is symbolic of the difficulty of his life\u2019s work as he toils to reach heaven.<\/p>\n

The apple picker has a hard time looking through the \u2018pane of glass\u2019 which is a piece of ice that formed on the drinking trough. He cannot see clearly through the ice as it distorts his vision and he cannot seem to recover from that. In other words, he cannot see what is to come now that his hard work is complete, and the harvest is in.<\/p>\n

Two symbols interwoven through the poem are sleep and dreaming. The speaker wonders what form his sleep will take, even alluding to the hibernation of the woodchuck: \u201cThe woodchuck could say whether it’s like his Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, Or just some human sleep.\u201d He is questioning if the sleep he feels coming on is a simple repose, or the eternal sleep of death.<\/p>\n

The season of winter symbolizes the end of one\u2019s life. Robert Frost could be metaphorically saying that the speaker is nearing the end of a hard working life.\u2018<\/p>\n

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
\nI got from looking through a pane of glass
\nI skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
\nAnd held against the world of hoary grass.
\nIt melted, and I let it fall and break.<\/p>\n

Question i.
\nWhat did the poet see through the \u2018pane of glass\u2019?
\nAnswer:
\nThe speaker saw the frost-covered (\u2018hoary\u2019) grass, distorted by the mirror (\u2018glass\u2019) of the ice.<\/p>\n

Question ii.
\nFrom where had he got this piece of glass?
\nAnswer:
\nThe night was cold enough to freeze the top layer of the trough into a sheet of ice, and the speaker picked up (\u2018skimmed\u2019) this sheet.<\/p>\n

Question iii.
\nHow could the glass \u2018melt\u2019?
\nAnswer:
\nThe ice started to melt, probably from the warmth of his hands.<\/p>\n

2. My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
\nIt keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
\nI feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
\nAnd l keep hearing from the cellar bin
\nThe rumbling sound
\nOf load on load of apples coming in.
\nFor I have had too much<\/p>\n

Question i.
\nWhy does the poet\u2019s instep arch ache?
\nAnswer:
\nThe speaker feels not only the ache from the ladder on his foot, which would be natural to feel later in the day. He also feels the continuing pressure of the ladder, as if he were still standing on it. Thus the speaker can feel the pressure of the ladder on the bottom of his foot, and the \u2018swaying\u2019 of the ladder against the bending branches of the apple tree.<\/p>\n

Question ii.
\nWhat has he been doing?
\nAnswer:
\nHe has been picking apples.<\/p>\n

Question iii.
\nWhat is the rumbling sound that the poet hears?
\nAnswer:
\nHe hears the rambling sound of barrels of apples being unloaded into a bin for sorting.<\/p>\n

Question iv.
\nWhy does the poet say that he has had \u2018too much\u2019? What is he referring to?
\nAnswer:
\nHe states, in the most direct terms, that he is sick of picking apples and he has had too many apples.<\/p>\n

Question v.
\nWhy does the ladder sway?
\nAnswer:
\nThe ladder sways against the bending branches of the apple tree as there are too many apples.<\/p>\n

3. There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
\nCherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.
\nFor all
\nThat struck the earth,
\nNo matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
\nWent surely to the cider-apple heap
\nAs of no worth.<\/p>\n

Question i.
\nWhy is the poet careful to see that his apples don\u2019t fall to the ground?
\nAnswer:
\nThe speaker had to worry about not letting the apples drop. Even if the apples were in perfect condition otherwise, without \u2018bruises\u2019 or \u2018stubble\u2019, they would be considered worthless if they touched the ground. They would have to be thrown in the heap of apples that will just be used to make cider.<\/p>\n

Question ii.
\nWhat is the poet trying to express by using the symbol of an apple that is \u2018spiked\u2019 or \u2018bruised\u2019?
\nAnswer:
\nThe apple that is spiked or bruised makes us think of the Biblical story of the Fall of Adam and Eve, and their forbidden fruit. So, the spiked or bruised apple is a metaphor for all that is evil.<\/p>\n

Question iii.
\nWhat does he really mean by using the imagery of apples being \u2018cherished\u2019?
\nAnswer:
\nThe speaker implies that each apple should be cherished, which means, carefully handled and picked. No apple should be allowed to fall.<\/p>\n

4 Magnified apples appear and disappear,
\nStem end and blossom end,
\nAnd every fleck of russet showing clear.<\/p>\n

Question i.
\nWhat do \u2018magnified apples\u2019 signify?
\nAnswer:
\nMagnified apples suggest that he’s going to dream about apples. The apples have an otherworldly appearance, as they are \u2018magnified\u2019 in his mind. They float by him like little orbs or stars across his vision.<\/p>\n

Question ii.
\nWhy does the speaker say, \u2018They appear and disappear\u2019?
\nAnswer:
\nThe description is similar to how the real apples would disappear into the barrel after he picked them.<\/p>\n

Question iii.
\nExplain the last line.
\nAnswer:
\nThe speaker can see the brownish-reddish specks that dot the surface of the apples. This colour is called \u2018russet\u2019.<\/p>\n

5. Were he not gone,
\nThe woodchuck could say whether it’s like his
\nLong sleep, as I describe its coming on,
\nOr just some human sleep.<\/p>\n

Question i.
\nWhat does the speaker wonder about?
\nAnswer:
\nHe wonders whether he will sleep like a normal person, or like a hibernating creature, such as a woodchuck.<\/p>\n

Question ii.
\nWhy does the speaker refer to the woodchuck?
\nAnswer:
\nA woodchuck is a groundhog, and it hibernates in the winter. The speaker thinks he too could sleep for a long time.<\/p>\n

Question iii.
\nWhy is the speaker not able to say whether his sleep is like that of the woodchuck?
\nAnswer:
\nThe woodchuck is an expert in hibernation, so it could say whether the speaker is about to go into hibernation. Unfortunately, the woodchuck has already gone to sleep for the winter, so the speaker will get no answer to his question.<\/p>\n

Writing Activity:<\/span><\/p>\n

Have you ever witnessed the scene of a peasant hand-picking cotton-bolls or oranges in a farm with great care? Write a paragraph describing the scene of cotton-boll picking.
\nAnswer:
\nAt a time when we have machines for everything, it is a rare sight to see someone handpicking cotton bolls. But I got the opportunity when I went to my uncle\u2019s place in Gujarat. It\u2019s very interesting to watch cotton-picking. I saw labourers wearing white cloth around their head and picking cotton bolls. They carried long bags into which they put the cotton bolls that they had picked. The cotton plants do not grow very high. Hence it is easier for people to pick cotton with their bare hands. They make way for themselves amidst the plants and pick cotton bolls.
\n(Note: A cotton boll is actually the blossom of cotton that gets picked off the plant before it is processed. A cotton ball is a ball of refined cotton that is sold in shops.)<\/p>\n

Multiple Choice Questions:<\/span><\/p>\n

Four alternatives are given for each of the following questions\/ incomplete statements. Choose the most appropriate alternative.<\/p>\n

Question 1.
\nThe speaker experienced a sense of strangeness
\nA) when he saw the unfilled basket
\nB) when he let the ice fall from his hands
\nC) while looking through a sheet of ice
\nD) when he saw the ladder standing upright, in the direction of heaven
\nAnswer:
\nC) while looking through a sheet of ice<\/p>\n

Question 2.
\nThe speaker compares sleep to
\nA) an \u2018essence\u2019 in the winter air
\nB) a sheet of ice
\nC) the ladder standing upright in the direction of heaven
\nD) the unfilled basket
\nAnswer:
\nA) an \u2018essence\u2019 in the winter air<\/p>\n

Question 3.
\nWhich of the following indicates that the task of picking apples is still not complete?
\nA) His long ladder still stands against a tree, rising high toward heaven.
\nB) There is a barrel that has not yet been filled with apples, and can accommodate some more.
\nC) A few apples may still have been left on the branches of the tree unpicked or yet to be picked.
\nD) All of the above.
\nAnswer:
\nD) All of the above.<\/p>\n

Question 4.
\nWhat causes drowsiness in the apple-picker?
\nA) The sheet of ice
\nB) The scent of apples
\nC) The drinking trough
\nD) The hoary grass.
\nAnswer:
\nB) The scent of apples<\/p>\n

Question 5.
\nThe poet says he is done with apple-picking because
\nA) he could not rub the strangeness of the sight he had seen through a sheet of ice
\nB) only a few are left to be picked
\nC) he is tired
\nD) his instep arch is aching
\nAnswer:
\nC) he is tired<\/p>\n

Question 6.
\nThe scene described in \u2018After Apple-Picking\u2019 takes place in
\nA) late autumn or early winter
\nB) autumn
\nC) winter
\nD) summer
\nAnswer:
\nA) late autumn or early winter<\/p>\n

Question 7.
\nThe situation described in \u2018After Apple-Picking\u2019 is
\nA) frustration the speaker feels about apples left unpicked
\nB) a dream the speaker has after picking apples all day
\nC) the dangers the speaker realises about the act of picking apples
\nD) worry about the coming snow that winter
\nAnswer:
\nB) a dream the speaker has after picking apples all day<\/p>\n

Question 8.
\nAccording to the speaker, apples that are used to make cider are
\nA) the ones that fall to the ground
\nB) red and sweet
\nC) picked from the highest tree branches
\nD) found on the lowest tree branches
\nAnswer:
\nA) the ones that fall to the ground<\/p>\n

Question 9.
\nThe speaker of \u2018After Apple-Picking\u2019 can be described as someone who is
\nA) angry with someone
\nB) bored with his job
\nC) weary from life
\nD) in love with a stranger
\nAnswer:
\nC) weary from life<\/p>\n

Question 10.
\nWhich question does \u2018After Apple-Picking\u2019 symbolically address?
\nA) How does a person deal with many hopes, wishes and experiences?
\nB) How does one\u2019s work affect one\u2019s dreams?
\nC) What is the real importance of nature?
\nD) When does a person best fulfill life\u2019s hopes and dreams?
\nAnswer:
\nA) How does a person deal with many hopes, wishes and experiences?<\/p>\n

After Apple-picking\u00a0Summary In English<\/h3>\n

This poem by Robert Frost is in the first person, and the narrator is a hardworking, simple man who has been picking apples in an apple orchard all day long, and is now overcome with exhaustion, not only because of the work, but also because of his immense experience of picking apples. It is winter, and the fast-approaching night is making him drowsy. He knows he still has a lot of apples to pick, but doesn’t want to work anymore.<\/p>\n

He feels the depth of his experience is going to make him dream vividly about apple-picking even while he’s asleep. He tries to shake the drowsiness off him, and tries to concentrate on picking apples because he has to take great care and not let any apple fall to the ground, as then it will be considered worthless. The narrator thinks about how tired he is, and how he wants to let sleep wash away his fatigue, and wonders if it will be a normal \u2018human\u2019 sleep, or a deep, hibernating sleep like that of the woodchuck.<\/p>\n

The narrator, who is the apple-picker, has an old-fashioned ladder which he evidently uses to pick apples. The mention of the ladder standing upright, in the direction of Heaven, hints at the biblical story of Jacob’s ladder, where Jacob dreams of a ladder that reached Heaven. The narrator has been picking apples all day, and yet hasn’t picked all the apples on that tree. He still has one more barrel to fill with picked apples, but he is too tired to continue picking. He knows he should finish picking all the apples, but he has had enough.<\/p>\n

The winter is fast approaching, and it is night time. This means that the narrator has spent all day picking apples, and is now exhausted by the work. He compares sleep to an \u2018essence\u2019 in the winter air, and feels this essence smells like apples, which again tells us about the effect of hard work on him. He is very sleepy, and feels like he’s going to fall asleep right there on the ladder. The narrator mentions that he feels \u2018strangeness\u2019 in his sight, which is attributed to an incident he experienced earlier that day.<\/p>\n

The narrator found a thin sheet of glass on his water trough when he went to get a drink of water early in the morning. As he held the sheet of ice in his hands and looked through it at the frostbitten grass, he could see everything strange and distorted. When the ice began to melt in his hand, he let the sheet fall to the ground and break, but this did not change the strangeness in his sight, which is causing him to look at the world in an odd, different way.<\/p>\n

Though he dropped the sheet of ice in real life, the narrator mentally alters the scene before he sleeps. This brings us to an emotion many of us have forgotten to experience – taking the time to gather the day’s thoughts, situations, and actions before falling asleep. He is now in bed, ready to give in to his exhaustion and fall asleep, and predicts what dreams he is going to have.<\/p>\n

The narrator does dream about apples – picking them and tossing them into the designated barrels. In his dream, the apples are \u2018magnified\u2019, and look very different than what he is used to. He can see every speck of reddish brown (every fleck of russet) on the apples, thanks to the magnified appearance.<\/p>\n

The narrator’s dream is very realistic. He can feel the pressure of standing on the ladder on his feet, and can even feel how his feet ache by standing on the ladder all day. Not only does he feel himself standing on the ladder, but he can also feel the ladder moving against the tree’s branches.<\/p>\n

The narrator is almost living the dream, as it is so realistic. He can hear the sound of the apples being offloaded into the bins where they will be sorted. This line also makes it clear that the narrator is not the only apple-picker in that orchard; perhaps, they are all hired by someone else to pick apples.<\/p>\n

\"After<\/p>\n

The narrator is tired of doing the work that he used to love in the past. He has picked countless apples over the years, and remembers how he always looked forward to the harvest season. However, now those feelings have changed. He no longer is excited about the apple-picking season.<\/p>\n

The narrator describes his work as an apple-picker, and the utmost care that they all have to take when picking apples. He talks about \u2018ten thousand thousand\u2019 fruit (exaggeration for a very large quantity of apples) which had to be carefully unloaded into the barrels. Even if one fell down, and touched the ground, and remained unspoiled, it was thrown into the cider heap. The apples in the cider heap were considered useless.<\/p>\n

The narrator is sure that he is going to have visions of picking apples, dropping them, and standing on the ladder, haunting him in his sleep. He wonders whether he will sleep like a normal person, or like a hibernating creature such as woodchuck (a groundhog). The woodchuck is an expert in hibernation, so it could say whether the speaker is about to go into hibernation.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, since it is already winter, the woodchuck has already gone to sleep, so the speaker will get no answer to his question. What we can decipher through these lines is that the narrator is extremely tired, and needs some well-deserved rest. Metaphorically, this also means that the narrator is wondering whether he will even wake up to life the next morning, or not.<\/p>\n

Glossary:<\/span><\/p>\n

barrel – a large round container, made of wood or metal
\nstick through – opening up against the tree
\nessence – fundamental, quality
\ncider – juice made from apples
\npane – sheet of glass
\ndone with – tired of
\ndrowsing off – feeling sleepy
\nrub off strangeness – make one feel uncomfortable
\nskim – remove the substance floating on the surface of the liquid
\ndrinking trough – a long narrow open container, used for holding food or water for animals
\nhoary – white or grey due to snow on it
\nmagnify – to make bigger than the actual
\nfleck – a very small area of colour
\nrusset – reddish brown; used here for the colour of apples
\narch – the curved part of the bottom of one\u2019s foot
\nsway – swinging movement
\ncherish – to hold dear<\/p>\n

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