... a little child whom one sees holding tight with one hand to its father, while with the other it gathers strawberries or blackberries from the hedge.' The other paper gives some experiences iu the lending of blankets and giving boots ; and it is something ...

... in the angle of a field ; hut when the foundation stone was laid, the ground around it had been waste growing gorse and blackberry bushes. No .a-days, in summer time the purple clover pressed up close to its plain brick walls, and it could only be approached ...

... very edge of the water. All around are traces of them glacier workings that geologists delight in. while in the woods the blackberry and wild strawberry grow in quantity enough for the wayfarer as fer the botanist. Returning to the Skjastation we got our ...

... and grow restless, you can go on= Before I met you this world was a desert to me. I didn't take any pleasure in going blackberrying and stealing rare ripe peaches, and it didn't matter whether the sun shone or not. Bat what a change in one short year ...

... carriage and gathering too been deducted. The prices mentioned for small fruits are also far above an average. Last year blackberries wr re sold at 1 jot per lb., and strawberries as low as 1.1 per lb., and a great malty lost for want of a market even at ...

... them before they are ripe ; but a blackberry, unless dead ripe, is the poorest of fruits, whereas when dead ripe it is almost the best. If you be a perpetual peripatetic in the lanes, you will sometimes find the blackberry pretending to rival the orange ...

... ears and foliage. The choir stalls were prettily trimmed, and the several pillars of the nave were decked with strings of blackberries and corn. In the centre panel of the pulpit was a handsome cross formed of scarlet geraniums, with a fringing of clematis ...

... gathering of blackberries for Liverpool and Manchester markets now provides profitable occupation for the country people in Cheshire, whence enormous quantities are being sent away. A mother and three children will earn 10e. and 12m. weekly by blackberry picking ...

... riding terminates right here ! And I rolled myself off the starboard side of that horse and struck on my bead in a wild blackberry bush. I went home with • nose full of briars and an accumulation of raw expe.ience that would have been worth its weight ...

... him, and threw him down, and found that he had a gun in his pocket.—Defendaut denied the charge, and said ho was only blackberrying.—Fined £1 and costs (is.) Dnusx.—George Brown of Cowl-street, was fined 2a. Bd. and coats (7e.) for being drank and disorderly ...