... BLACKBERRIES. This has been a singularly good year for blackberries in some pal t. of the country. In Sussex the hedgerows are laden, and some of the fruit is of a remarkable size. Probably the dry summer, followed by the recent rains, which came just ...

... npon the brow of Angela Bnrdett. —The Animul World BLACK-BERRIES. trees were flushed with red and gold, As, in the warm September weather. Among the country lanes we strolled, And picked the blackberries together. Standing among the russet-brown, And withered ...

... down on his luck who doesn't try. Defendant—l have tried to earn what I could by blackberrying. What I've esrued I've given my wife. His Honour—But you don't go blackberrying in the evening. Why don't you put up a sign and do your haircutting and shaving ...

... invigorating moorland air. On reaching our hostelry we found • dinner of thoroughly Devonshire fare, of which rabbik pie, and blackberry and apple tart with clotted cream, were principal features, awaiting us, and I need scarcely add that with appetites, which ...

... Kilmorie. Her sister Dorothy Mary, aged 8, and her brother Edgar, aged 6, were with her. They were going out pick• ing blackberries. She first saw the prisoner in a field on the right side of the road, which lei down to the sea. He was sitting down but ...

... play is of the usual melodramatic nature with a little variety and flavour added. Murders and other villainies abound like blackberries in a Devonshire lane and virtue in not left to be its own reward. Of the company Miss Nellie Lauraine played and eang ...

... the altar, which had a tinish given it by a small sheaf of wheat, and large bunches of grapes. Grantee and creepers with blackberries formed the principal adornment of the font., these being picked out with anemones and marguerites. The chancel screen also ...

... sore pounds retail ; while wholesale they touched (xl. per score, at which price lorry loads were despatched to jam works. blackberries and elderberries are almost given away, end among apples 401 b of Prussian pippins were bought for Is. 6d. ; and after ...

... delicate and agreeable fruit. Gooseberries are wholesome, but should be cooked if eaten in any quantity. Raspberries and blackberries are excellent, and should be eaten freely. Strawberries are probably the most heartily welcomed of our small fruits, and ...

... the returned Klondiker, where the nuggets were said to be as plentiful as blackberries . ' Aad they were not Well, yes, they were ; but, you see, there are no blackberries in that region. The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the ...

... apisreciatetl---don't be afraid of that. The man that will stand being nagged is a saint, and saints are not as plentiful as blackberries in the world. There's male nagging, my dear, as well as female—male grumbling and never being pleased ; and folks who expect ...

... by making blackberry jam would be worth thinking over. There are always plenty of children available to do the picking, and who, for the small sum of twopence, would be very glad to work the whole of the afternoon. In my opinion blackberry jam is one ...