... Edmonds, Dr. Mo at and others represented various nonconforming bodies ; while members of Parliament, if not as thick blackberries in autumn, were as numerous the fingers upon one hand, Henry Richard and Samuel Mobley being of their number. would be ...

... Country people have an old saying about tho delicacy of “blackberry chickens;” this probably means chickens hatched during the parching heat accompanied east winds which we often have when blackberries are ripe. If similar weather comes in June or July the ...

... iu the hedge, and ih.-uiks the grafter. In Staffordshire it is said that the devil always puts bis cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmasday ; therefore alter t day none should be gathered during the remainder of the year—a superstition which ...

... hardly-earned bread he obtains by trading in turnip-tops, violets, primroses, ferns, chaffinches, watercressea, mushrooms, blackberries, —but the list too long to be completed here. The following is extract from another chapter, particularly interesting just ...