... to her niece. who is taking tea with ber)— Take some or these stewed blackberries, my dear. Black herein are good for complexion. Niere — But, deer aunty, I deal want • blackberry /wimple:leo. I DON'T think, says old Mrs Prawn, Mast bsok-keeping ...

... some of the gallant sportsmen, and Mother incid..not connected with the Epping Hunt, as may be supposed, are plentiful as blackberries among the older inhabitints of these parts. Among anecdotes of another kind, the following is perhaps worth recording ...

... left alone with the four children, and she lost no time iu sending bee husband's two little ones lute the woods to gather blackberries. Then, going to the bed where her own children lay, she lifted the baby up cautiously, so as not to disturb her seven-year•old ...

... Coming to the fruit, the show, because of the lateness of the season, was not so good as it was last year. Nevertheless the blackberries were such as to elicit universal admiration ; while the strawberries were also good. Special mention should be made of ...

... on, hoping to overtake her. Hardly had the two ladies disappeared from sight when a negm man crept out from a thicket of blackberry bushes on the roadside, and approaching young Averill, began to speak in a low, cautious tone. The young man listened eagerly ...

... apples. pliant etc. But even in the berries the exhibits were few. These, however were of good quality, and one lot of blackberries far size could scarcely be Mat. and took the grit price easily. ...

... Displayed a silvery lining. We left our home by the side of the stream, Away through the woodlands to wander, Where the blackberries grow on the mountain brow, And the rivulets sweetly meander. Or down by the side of Carlingfoid Lough, Where many an old ...

... To prepare fruit jokes. Take a quantity of any kind of freak berry fruit (red morsel. black eeriest. cherry, gooseberry, blackberry, oreeherry, &c. ; also plane and rhubarb). Clams the fruit, sad pet it ate as enamelled goblet or jelly pos. (Rhubarb aloud ...

... year, much of which be plucked green, and this should enable the Washita, though late. to boar heaviest fruit this year. Blackberries were not looking so well ; bat it is bard to say what they might do wider favourable circumstances. The red a• d white ...

... Brand described wood at some length, The place whets the sily as found is hidden from view, it seeut , . romps of whin and blackberry bashes. B it—this its the ins- Portent point —there is one ~ pening by which anyone would neturall: approach It. This opening ...

... births, or through what is called throwing back. But the law of Nature is, like from like, and so we never look for blackberries on hazel bushes, or nuts on brambles. The woman who is herself wise and virtuous will refuse to link her life with any ...

... thoughtful and sensible men. Some, indeed, may be of opinion that in a country like Scotland, where poets are as plentiful as blackberries or blackbirds, encouragement of Letters is not required. But the kindly helping hand, the light of countenance, need not ...