... apple sauce. Mrs. Deacon Serewitt, however, managed matters quite differently. She had taken two cents a quart from the blackberry girl's charges that morning, because berries ripen so abundantly this season that ...

... elderberry trees were dotted with bunches of bright red berries, whilst amid' the rough leaves of the hazels green nuts nestled. Blackberry bushes laden with red fruit shot their long thorny arms up through the hedges, and here and there at intervals along the ...

... But I need no' say heaw mich I wur reminded 0 . my younger days, when I'd my honds scrat o'er wi' gettin' blackberries, becose ther blackberry trees then; when we could find brid neezes hedges ut had bin white o'er wi' blossom; when we could find fish ...

... at Benjamin Barlow, the bold Bombadier. Bell Belinda was tall, Madge Maria was small, And they lived with their Father at Blackberry Dell; On the farm every day, an embargo they'd lay, For provisions for Barlow, the Bombadier Swell. So they brought pots ...

... humanity to nature.— Norwich Bulletin. NORTH CAROLINA is the champion State for blackberries. Ah ! how happy those old days when we stood beside a black-eyed girl at a blackberry bush, and tried to make her pail get full before ours, FO that she could sit ...

... baryin. absent bet' see Ma ea* o'ik rth' At Blackberry Ho things wurno' so comfortable would leead folk to think they wur. Jack o' ese his bringin up a presud family; an' they carried their yeadg deb a height, 'at they oouldno' see their tom. His two ...

... is at home hanging out the washing in her shirt sleeves. I see, said a Stockton housewife to a dealer, that you have blackberries for sale? Yes, ma'am. It 4asby a scratch I got them. One of the possibilities of future warfare' will be blowing up ...

... • BEN BRIERLET'S JOURNAL. th' misais o' Blackberry Ho, if titer no ugly things delved sant o'th' family history. To Jack o' Rachel's thlswurno'somlohof a floorer as it wnr to th' Squire; for Jack nobbut a tool, tho he'd his own ends to serve; an' it wonldno' ...

... and to the adventurous youth who was fond of bird-nesting, or penetrating its secret recesses in search of hazel nuts or blackberries, or loading his pockets with hep or acorn, the lovely dingle was a productive field of enterprise. Now, alas! the waving ...

... those whose infantile steps once wandered into the forbidden recesses of ‘f Banker's Hollow, in search of the luscious blackberry or the interesting bird's neat, are scattered abroad, fewvery few—remaining to chant the glories of those early exploits ...

... azure have two, The remaining twain's flashing like diamonds— Ah ! no young men come, smitten, to woo Rustic swains are as blackberries common, But ain't quite the thing for fair dames; I wonder young sparks from the city Don't find in the country their flames ...

... and those whose infantile steps once wandered into the forbidden recesses of Banker's Hollow, in search of the luscious blackberry or the interesting bird's nest, are scattered abroad, few—very few—remaining to chant the glories of thoseearly exploits ...