... was sent to fetch the bulletin which I would have kept me from a nice party, that was to go out for the ! gathering of blackberries, I complained, with tears in my eyes, to my i brother Daniel, about this de'il of an auld wife that would neither die 1 ...

... the tricked uncle trustee for the Lobes im the rood.* 1 Just But I preferred an appeal to the Lords Treasury to eating blackberries, and take my leave, for the present, of Sir James Weir Hogg aud Mr Baillie.—l remain, Sir, &c., C. J. Napier, Lieut-General ...

... lies buried beneath their deceptive beauty. The hips of the wild rose rest their rich scarlet upon the carved ebony of the blackberry; while the deep blue of the sloe throws over all the rich bloomy velvet of its fruit, as it stands crowned with its ruddy ...