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ARY-MARY, quite contrary, went all by herself into the Deep Wood. She saw a drift of snow under a tree; she saw a patch of red berries upon the snow, and she saw a black, black raven standing on the snow and pecking at the red berries. And never since one day in her garden when the red peonies leaned over the whitewashed steps, and the black cat lay sunning herself upon them, had Mary seen a sight that was so well worth beholding.

So she stood beside the tree, watching the snow and the berries and the raven. And then