... looked upon differently from that earned by steadygoing labour on the field or farm. In their season he gathered cress, and blackberries, and nuts. Snipe and woodcock which came to the marshy meadows in severe weather were taken in gins and springes.” Traps ...

... Cheshire the gathering of blackberries for Liverpool and Manchester markets now provides profitable occupation for the country prop!. Enormous quantities are being sent away. A and three children will earn 10s. and 12s. weekly blackberry-picking. Dealers from ...

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

... pears for deasert, 2a per dozen ; pineapples, 2s. to Os. ; and melons, Cd. to 2s. ftd. each ; grapes, 9d. to 3s. per lb.; blackberries, id. per pint; plums, greengages, damsons, and sloes, 4d. to Cd. ; apples for cooking purposes, 2d. to 4d. : and Alberts ...

... galls. With these the coppice furnishes them abundantly. The same frosts that ripen the corn and put the bloom upon the blackberries rapidly develop the body and plumage of the pheasant. And so by the end of September it requires a keen eye to distinguish ...

... work of the choir, The next item of the day's pleasant programme was proceeded with. It consisted of a drive to Rochford, blackberrying, and the inspection of Rochford Church and Roohford Hall, said to have been the birth-place of Ann Boleyn, the party returning ...

... ication, and few birds now remain or could long survive in a truly wi.d conditiotn before tbe St 0 f October, when the blackberries hang on the brambles and the brown nuts drop from the clusters, the keeper goes, as is his daily wont, to the coppice of ...

... pears for dessert, 2s. per do/en; pineapples, 2s. to fis.; and melons, 6d. to 2s. 6,1. each: grapes, Sd. to 3s. per lb.; blackberries, 4.1. per pint; plums, greengages, damsons, and sloes, 4,1. to 6d.; apples for cooking purposes, 2d. to 4d. ; and lili ...

... work of the choir, the next item of the day's pleasant programme was proceeded with. It consisted of a drive to Rochford, blackberrying, and the inspection of Rochford Church and Rochford Hall, said to have been the birth place of Anne Boleyn, the party returning ...

... on Wedanesday. |The girl had gone to & farm carrying her | brother’s dJimner, and on her way Dback 'ltapm to pick some blackberries, when a | Dun! of boys attacked her, knocked her down, and two of them, cne of them the prisoner, buhaved in a most improper ...

... discussion until Finchley does something more than has yet hern done. the tame.—Defendanfe said he wm only Dieting few blackberries, and did not over the hedges all, but through the gates.—Fined 6d d amages, and 2» 6d coats, and was allowed a week for ...

... near his father’s gate. Tho boy said they might go into tho field and sit down. They went in, and some of them gathered blackberries, j They had been in the field about three-quarters of i an hour when defendant came in, knocked her down, i and kicked ...