... 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, ...

... 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 ...