... but then it was in the old days of a flippant House of Commons led by a flippant leader, when jokes were as plenty as blackberries, and the First Minister of the Crown regarded the first question of the day chiefly as a joke. Bat now we have got an ...

... doubtful, sprinkle a littlo salt the under and spongy part; if it turns yellow they are poisonous, if black they are good.” Blackberry Cordial,—To two quarts of juice add one pound of white sugar; half ounce nutmeg; half ounce cloves pulverised. Boil all ...

... assaulting his wife on the instant at Exmouth.—From the evidence it appears that drs. Sage had during the day been picking blackberries. s*he brought them ...

... here, ignorant of the fact that he was doing wrong. The police decline to give any further information.—Two boys, while black-berrying in a fie’d adjacent to where the r'ecent Houghton-le-Spring races were held, strolled under the grand stand, where they ...

... drain on hair sieve all night. Add a pound of sugar to each pint of juice, boil, and pour into shapes. Blackberry Fool. —Prepare 11b. of blackberries carefully and 11b. of apples which pulp easily; add the juice of lemon and put all in a clean saucepan ...

... evidence that the girl, who is small for her age, was sitting on a wall watching her sister and other children gathering blackberries, when the Earl of Galloway came up, entered into conversation with her, and behaved improperly towards her. The defe ndant ...

... suddenly, after eating a quantity of blackberries. He vomited violently after eating them, and the medical evidence went to show that death was due to convulsions consequent upon diarrhea caused by eating the blackberries. AT Stockton-en-Tees a boy, named ...

... another on either side till their black twigs nearly interlaced, and its untutored hedgerows, with here and there a spray of blackberry leaf straggling in the ditch, had something of the promise of May in it. It had more; for in spite of its London wintriness ...

... cold And deathly autumn came. Only of that young time The bright things I remember; How orchard boughs were laden red, And blackberries so brave Came ere the frost and rain— Ere the dreary dark November With dripping black boughs overhead And dead leaves ...

... house, the beys went away into the forest and brought home firewood; and aunng summer and ’autumn they gathered whimbernes, blackberries, and cranberries, which they sold in the town, and did odd jobs the farmers, and so helped their father to provide food ...

... the tent, the elder turning over the sketches she had made during the day, the younger preparing a dish of newly-gathered blackberries for their impromptu tea; for the three Holt girls were camping out on beautiful Kennett Mountain, in the heart of the ...

... cakes may be baked, and if only light yellow, sponge-cakes and biscuits may be set in the oven at once. BLACKBERRY JELLY.—Put 41b. of blackberries with half a pint of water into a preserving pan. Cook till soft, then strain through a hair sieve. Press ...