... ■When a certain little negro boy wanted to attend his father’s funeral, he asked the schoolmaster for a holiday to a black-berrying. A western editor could not attend the Picayune Club Ball, because his only shirt was the wash, and his wife had the measles ...

... for ten harvest hands, did a two weeks’ washing and the milking, made a calico dress, practised her music lesson, went blackberrying, gathered a gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concert, and walked home again before bedtime. A Chinese ...

... is now exceedingly rich in autumnal wild flowers and berries, and on the little girl pointing to a tempting cluster of blackberries the nurse tried to reach them, and fell over the cliff. Fortunately her fall was broken by an elder tree, where she was ...