... Colonel was more than ever satisfied that he had made a mistake. The corn was tasselling royally on the sunny slopes of Blackberry Farm; the cherries hung ripe and red among the green boughs of the old trees in the door-yard; and Dora was helping her ...

... either Morello cherries, damsons, or harvestplums, stoned. BLACKBERRY TART OR PODDING.—As the pips of this fruit are very indigestible, it is advisable only to use the pulp of the ripe blackberries. Take a pint of pulp, a glass of brandy, six sharp apples ...

... PART ll.* i 0 MAKE blackberries, take beeswax and cut it into pieces, roll each piece separately between the palms of the hands, mould them in shape with the fingers, and paint them black. After the paint is dry, press morning glory seeds a little distance ...

... that bird. There is also kew edg . e, apple edge, pear edge, three-bow edge, violet edge, and in sprigs, violets, roses, blackberries, wheels, fly-wheels, flies, glaire eyes,. watches, and spectacles, known in lace vernacular as spurtacles. Names of celebrity ...

... repeat the operation. TIRESOME (Essex.)—Doubtless, the following method will answer your purpose. For blackberry wine, put some ripe blackberries into a large vessel with a tap in it; pour on as much boiling water as will cover .them, and. as soon as ...

... for ten harvest hands, did a two weeks' washing and the milking, made a calico dress, practised her music lesson, went blackberrying, gathered a gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concert, and walked home again before bedtime. Mr. Dale ...

... living at Stoke, met with a shocking death on the Cornwall Railway on Saturday afternoon. He, with two companions, had been blackberrying, and returning home across the Camel's Head viaduct, between Saltash and Devonport, when, warned by a whistle of the approach ...

... lounging about, the children playing, and the wretched animals browsing on the scanty grass that, grew between the furze and blackberry-bushes of the common. There might be a van more or less—l suppose sometimes they loft our neighbourhood for an adjacent ...

... May (says the Edinburgh Courant) is only now beginning to be fully comprehended. In the gardens, potatoes, strawberries, blackberries, gooseberries, and red and wuite currants have suffered severely, and will in most cases prove a very light crop. In the ...

... BY J. G. WHITTIER. TILL sits the schoolhouse by the road A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official; The warping floor, the battered seats ...

... birds very tenderly for pets. And when the autumn came, we scrambled through the woods and thickets for nuts, acorns, and blackberries. And as for the torn dresses and scratched hands, why we took them as things of course. Meanwhile, we saw nothing of the ...

... added if necessary. The flavour of the fruit is preserved by this method, which answers well for strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, &c. Boil o a thick syrUp one pound of refined sugar, and a quarter of a pint of water for each pound of fruit. When cold ...