... interesting r Gleanings from the Public Records, are given DI. H. D Hewlett, who says- * d Recipes are as plentiful as blackberries in an autumn lane;t and it would seem that the scribes and accountants of three hundred years ago had nothing better to ...

... hospitality, and when, one fine morning, Margery proposed as a novelty that they should go into the forest and gather blackberries, Hellen at once consented, anid though Tom Fairfax had intended repairing after break- fast to the brewbouse in the yarj ...

... a rainy season. On the morning of one of those days Dale's second daughter, Maggie, a little girl of fourteen went out blackberrying in the neighbourhood of Hawdon. There was not much of the delicious wild fruit to get, for the season was getting rather ...

... uttering a preliminary clucking, addressed to her offspring, withdrew with them to the friendly shade of the hedge, where the blackberries, already ripening, clustered in purple bunches amongst the dark green leaves, Far below, beneath the sunlit nastures and ...

... sank within her. Bol it was chiefly at the way in which the man spoke of new governesses, as if they were as plentiful as blackberries. The only thing is, miss, if the mre should bolt, to bold on, he said, after a moment. Sybil wondered a little why Brown ...

... was supplied by the B&ck-the little trout stream besides which the. discharged forges had supped on self-denial aln ?? on blackberries and water during Joh Joyee'h reign. 0f ?? Wood, Mlorde Copse, and Fox Wood, no- thing need be paid at all. It is more ...

... himself to General Forster. Aye, WVogan? Well, he'll be mighty acceptable, seeing that our recruits are not as plentiful as blackberries. What is his name? Mlr John Hall of Otterbarn. John Hall, repeated Forster, with a look of slight dis- apppointment; ...

... masters' rooms; of course I didn't ask if it belonged to anybody. You pick a hlacekberry oil the hedge and you don't askl whose blackberry it is. There was a maid ser- vant who saw mc. Of course, in self defence I said that I saw her take the moncy. They searched ...

... regard to herself. She is becoming quite a celebrated toast, like I was. Then I say suitors must be as plentiful as blackberries, replied Mr flog. So, so, Miss Winnie, he added, laugh- ing, we may expert Ae hear that you are making the whole county ...

... run- ning up with continual r,'c100ars, that Wil.cnm, won hadeoch long arms, woald come aiid help him to get a hunch of blackberries which were out of lila react4. And then William, ever good-naturco fri children, regard' less of the risk of cateniug his ...

... impotent freany of grief. He could not pass a bramble bush without remembering that it was here he had picked the first ripe blackberry of the season for Steenie. or give the most trivial order to his men without the sickening reflection that the zest of ...

... determined to tell him all to-day. him Mighty fine, truly, growled the Alderman; but husbands are not so plentiful as blackberries on a hedge, I Mistress, though you seem to be of that mind.' I ?? pay me no more compliments now, sir, sajd Joan, I with ...