... case is reported in which a young fellow was severely bitten by one of these vipers under peculiar circumstances. He was blackberrying with a friend. The friend was attacked by a copperhead, which the young lad killed. A few minutes later he was attacked ...

... overcome him just as the chance of conquest seems greatest. The hedgerows are rich with scarlet hips and haws and purple blackberries, while the other berries beloved of the birds —bryony, elder, holly, woody nightshade, privet, and honeysuckle—form a rich ...

... cloth, Brackserey jam is improved greatly by adding half a pound of pecled and cored sour sharp apples to every pound of blackberries. Tugre is an old saying that a woman can throw out with a spoon faster than a man can throw in with a shovel. Without reference ...

... with satisfactory prices for production. Cultivated blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries are among the principal crops produced by the associates. They sold over 2} million quarts of blackberries this year, BOT FEW TILLAGE OPERATIONS (says the A ...

... and Mr. Whitehead adds 15,000 acres for soft fruit (strawberrics, raspberries, gooseberries, currants, and cultivated blackberries), supposed to be excluded. But little soft fruit was grown, except in gardens, in 1889, and that little was produced near ...

... gooseberry crop, from all accounts that reach us, will not be a very heavy one. Blackberries, it is said, will reach a high price this rear. For yearspast very few blackberry bushes inve been planted, and the crop, being a limited one, the prices are tending ...

... of the briar and thorn hats are too extraoniinary to be described, and the latest are the bramble ones, with clusters of blackberries in various stages of ripeness, which look for all the world as if the wearer had twisted up a shape for herself out of ...

... that gives one so much courage as good reasoms,” says a sailor in * Monte-Cristo,” but if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries they would hardly serve to account for the air of courage with which most of the most eminent counsel in + ngland on Monday ...

... et deter me from enjoying the acevery of the wany lakes which I ur-nd, or stoppiug fre- | queutly to piek a handful of blackberries, which were very acceptable in quenching thirst. At Barringtou I met Mr W. S. Vallance and his wife, wvho were making a ...

... ribbon sash was tied round the waist, matching that which surrounded the crown of the white straw sailor hat. A girl with blackberries garlanding her large fancy straw hat wore a pretty gown of pale yellow striped cripe, set into a yoke of dark green velvet ...

... was stated that his evidence would be taken abroad. v e A new rural industry is being opened up in Kentthe cultivation of blackberries for profit Enormous quantities of this fruit ave grown on the hedges in the lanes and other parts of the county, and the ...

... criminal class seized the opportunity to steal. He earnestly hoped that the dispute would soon be settled. Two men who were blackberrying on Saturday afternoon on the Wren's Nest Hill, which lies between Dudley and Coseley, were surprised by hearing the weak ...