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Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser

A CHINESE DINNER PARTY

... the long slimmer vacation they are sent out to glean, to gather mushrooms, which the mother makes into ketchup and sells, blackberries, or wortleberries, to be made into a coarse but palatable kind of jam ; they also collect firewood on the shore for winter ...

SOUTHEND LOCALE BOARD, OCT. Gib, 1874:

... say all won, or at least so we decided it, and the little fellows were happy. Home through the pretty hedgerows where the blackberries hang rich, and where a few little birds twittered to each other their good nights, where the English trees, which are too ...

THE PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS

... and peaches were M are untouched, and whilst making desolate the raspbury bushes, they spared the strawberries and the blackberries. For lace curtains they displayed a singular fancy, and if a parlour window was left open thousands fluttered about the ...