CHAPTER X
ROBERT ROBIN AND HIS FAMILY GO SOUTH
The next morning after Robert Robin and his family had stayed overnight with Cousin Phineas, a heavy frost whitened the roofs of the buildings and covered the fields with a carpet of frost diamonds. The white smoke from the many chimneys of the city floated upward in great fluffy cones until it seemed that the fluffy cones of snowy smoke were columns which bound the city to the sky.
“What strange-looking clouds you have here in Elmira!” said Mrs. Robin to Cousin Phineas.
“Yes! We have them go straight up so that we may fly between them!” said Cousin Phineas. “But how about a little breakfast?”
“I was just thinking about the same thing!” said Robert Robin, “and after our long trip, I am sure that we are hungry enough to eat almost anything!”
“There are frozen apples in Arnot’s orchard, frozen grapes on Sullivan Hill, poison-ivy berries near Big Flats, and sumach bobs on the road to Millport!” said Cousin Phineas. “So you may have your choice!”
“Let us try the sumach bobs!” said Mrs. Robin. “I have not tasted one this season! They must be delicious after this hard frost!”