... 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 her bed where her own children lay, she lifted the baby up cautiously, as not to disturb her eeven-yearold ...

... would scarcely own any rvlationiibip with the. puny productions oar own soil few generations ago. native fruit* then were blackberries, sttswtemec, raspberrita, currants, and perhaps goose berries. There were also some kind* nuts, and there were crab apples ...

... Or I too lenient! Does be reason all, is he that disdainful nature that scorns giro reason though they were “plenty as blackberries?” Be this it may. the dash of seeming nirobleness about bis mental gymnastics must have its due reward—from ths vulgar ...

... has three rows of graduated cut jet beads with an upstanding fan plaiting ;black lace. Through are stuck two three jet “blackberry” pins. To complete the trimming bunch of red, or any coloured flowers you prefer, may be used. is difficult, sometimes, ...

... when of a soft make they are certainly well worn. I read lately original tea gown in two shades of what is now called *' blackberry is the tone of the fruit when slightly crushed. The gown hud wide cross-cut gathering velvet the darker tone round the skirt ...

... feather osprey against background coloured bows, and kept the head bv bonnet pins of terrifying dimensions, and usually of the blackberry device, are worn young women. Sweet little erections, consisting of drawn jetted tulle, powdered with jet butterflies round ...

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