... pond. As every one knows, the completeness of this test in the olden times, when witches and warlocks were as plentiful as blackberries, was undoubted. If a hag upon whose character suspicion had fallen, was able to swim, this showed conclusively that she ...

... Mrs Barnard and her companion hearing another sound near Land, the fall of stealthy footstep on the other side the tangled blackberry hedge, which ecreened Mr Jebb's kitchen garden from the vulgar gaze. The footsteps travelled slowly along tho narrow, weedy ...

... fruit is put in and kept whole as possible by careful stirring with a wooden spoon ; boil fifteen minutes, and bottle. Blackberries canned in this manner are most delidons, and form a valuable addition to the children’s winter diet. Plums are canned with ...

... is put in and kept as whole as possible by careful stirring with a wooden .. spoon; boil fifteen minutes, and bottle. - Blackberries canned in this manner are most deli- ciiou, anid form a valuable addition to the children's winter diet, Plunis are canned ...

... pretty drunk. A cEIITAIN calls his wife the rod, white, cud blue, beteuse she has red hair, white teeth, and blue ryes. Tics blackberry is so named because it is blue, in order to distinguish it from the blueberry, whieu black. Ir you have a pretty daughter ...