... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... forgetfulness of the cold, if, indeed, there is any cold to forget. We wander about the lanes or over the downs, gathering rich blackberries, and eating them with a feeling of wonder that many more people do not take a holiday in October, Llandudno is a place ...

... 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 10s. and 12s. weekly by blackberry picking ...

... 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 ...

... provides profitable occupation for the country people. A mother and three children will earn as much twelve shillings weekly blackberry-picking —Twenty - ono lambs which bad been chased by a dog were so terrified that they were afterwards found lying dead ...

... 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 ...

... great contrast between the sale of Saturday last and that of three weeks ago. when prices •ner i’Ubgs each were common as blackberries down the Littleton load, while the ylgs was the highest pi fee, which was given Mr U, Smith (or Buccaneer, oeautlfal gelding ...

... reading desk consisted of a pretty arrangement of Virginia creeper, ferns, and corn, intermixed with nuts, apples, and blackberries. The chance! arch, on each side up to the capitals, was lined with foliage and oat*, each capital being encircled with ...

... end bullion. W. to 64.. cooking apples, 24. to ; Kontish • and filbert., bd. to 94. nee lb.; walnuts, 11 too hundred; blackberries, ; and cherry apples, 24, per pint; dwarf chrysanthemums, and autumn dowers. in pits, to It 64. each: fancy baskets of ...

... 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 ...