... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... tops, and an Aundance of playtime. At ten, the boy wants to leave school, and have nothing to do but go birdnestiog and blackberry hunting. At fifteen he wants a beard and a watch, and a pair of Wellington boots. At twenty he wishes to out a figure and ...

... present aspect, but had at one time been redolent of the hawthorn blossom and the wild rose; and in the autumn rich with blackberries. But the meadow lands have preserved their greenness, being principally devoted to dairy purposes, which are in great demand ...

... muscular form which developed itself in week-day jollity and Sabbath heart-worship ; when I edge-backings were laced with blackberry brambles, and footpaths were not stopped by greedy landowners; when cans chinked at the well, and the broad village green ...

... an' I'm nobbut just gettin' rid o' one. And Billy sneezed. Yer yo that when I've not had a pinch o' snuff sin' last blackberry-time. Well, I'll send for the girl, said the porter, thinking he had got a queer visitor. But you'll have to wait awhile ...

... fragrance of the hawthorn, the honeysuckle, and the wild rose; and their hedge bottoms were trailed over with the vine of the blackberry. These glories have departed; and the old people do not seem to care about surviving them. No one, to have seen this unique ...