... whey—often drunk also as a substitute for saline water, A decoction of the berries of the mountain ash, sweetened with blackberries, was not an uncommon drink in districts where that tree abounded. (To be continued.) ...

... by those whom the closeness of the mid-day has prevented from wearing overcoats. Oa the common and by the hedgerow the blackberries are almost bare, but there is a good show of hazel and cob-nuts, and tbe woods are still thick with leaves. Change of colour ...

... with the writite clover, and after that period the ebees consu me moir than they p itlier, but inl ?? Al places, wvhere blackberry and heaither is abundant, Mr Ie they store to a much later doate, and the ahim of the vn n-bee-keeper should be to g7ive ...

... subject. Such a s)lemn occasion could not Oh, yes, pa dear, what I meant to explain was that Samuel aad IL tve been a-blackberrying. The old man carted as if he had received a kick from a donkey. Well, U you call that a joht—,_ won 1 ...

... some of the gallant sportmen, and of other incidents connected with the Epping Hunt, as may be supposed, are plentiful as blackberries among the older inhabitants of these parts. Among anecdotes of another kind, the following is perhaps worth recording:—Lord ...

... left alone with the four children, and she lost no time in sending her husband's two little ones into the woods to gather blackberries. Then, going to the bed where bet own two children lay, she lifted the baby up cautiously, so as not to disturb her se ...

... breeze sprang up as we reached the top of the cliff. We stopped for a few minutes when we got further on to gather a few blackberries and wild flowers. Then some pretty grass attracted our attention, and we waited to get some. We had never been so far along ...

... last to have found a home, such as, 'ears ago, we, in our girlish inexperience, used fondly to imagine were plentiful as blackberries. But you are one of that happy class with whom a little kindness goes a g eat way. in your plaoe, lam afraid that I should ...

... creature to go and washbimself elsewhere. Such a great black fellow as be was Something like two of the nibs of the largest blackberry you ever saw jointed together in the middle. I shook him on to the heather and requested him to turn his steps away from ...

... thsW• oh I b.. After they had gone by I fell efi te deep. mitt not write again till neat seeedes. Os Weber day I lived fon blackberries Oa I ne money to buy any more cakes. I. ameeing I • pat with a war in it, and I saw a lady and man come and sit down. I ...

... nuts, is per lb. • water melons, 8d ; and sound ditto, 3s each ; pine apples, 34 to 8. per ditto ; damsons, &I per quest; blackberries, 8d per lb. ; woodnuts, 2d a pint. Vegetables : Cauliflowers, 4d; cucumbers, fid and is each; mixed salad, 4d; mushrooms ...

... that they returning Porth-dafarch order make short cut they crossed a field Penybryn where several other people gathering blackberries Ac One followed the at a distance of about aud the prosecutor found net stated that man might seen it were Air E Griffith ...