... father, a sickly man, who was in receipt of outdoor relief, and hie wife were stated to be in the habit of going out picking blackberries or bird-eatebing, but the man sometimes only earned 6d. • day. The relieving officer stated that the man positively declined ...

... medlars, f e m. Around the rails were bunched composed of barley, oats, honesty, bat berries, tomatoes, wild clematis, blackberries, &c. On the lamp brackets behind the rostrum, were clusters 1.1 fruit and wheat, and on the chandeliers barberries, corn ...

... be narrow-minded, short-sighted diggers who, when they have found a new field, act like school boys who have come upon a blackberry bush—want to have it all to themselves, and try to keep off a rush, when, if the field is really good for anything, A rush ...