... silk poke bonnets, under which they wear nice white frills. a little They often make money by gathering bil- berries or blackberries, or selling honey. Several old ladies over eighty would walk seven or eight miles to bring us fruit. The country folk, ...

... opened.—Bones of meat and the carcasses of fowls are thrown away when they could be used in making soup stock. BLACKBERRY YAM.—Put blackberries that are not quiteripe into a jar, and cover it up closely. Set the jar in a kettle or deep stew-pan of water ...

... one hundredweight each, sad the diatauce covered forty-three miles. Eccentric driving and riding wagers were as plentiful blackberries at that time. About the coolest of them was tbe wager a coachman on the Hammersmith road that be could cut off the wheel ...

... not only able to Ma:tr.bat positively ravelled in (be very Idea of dvneing ; and the pretty girls were as plentiful se blackberries. Nothing but an old.fashioned winter was rmaired to make the Liciwood the Well of all that was joyous and sca..onable; ...

... broken with a hammer, if tradition were to be trusted. Peggy's culinary chill did not equal the warmth of her heart. Yet a blackberry pie was No rare a luntuy in the gaunt old kitchen that the little girl who peeped from her hook with eyes ea round as m ...

... with Rushed cheeks and eyes a• bright ea WON of squirrels, dragging branches with the duly seed vessels of the clematis, blackberry boughs that were Mill grove, and Sr cones which they dzi . olled up, sad which would won be dry and Then had bees a dies ...