... how early the little lads ceased to eat the bread of idleness. The smallest of them would be sent to gather mushrooms and blackberries. They were soon fitted out with a dinner satchel and a pair of clappers, and sent to scare the birds from the newly-sown ...

... a spear wound, from the effects of which he afterwards died whilst playing polo at Cairo. Engagement were plentiful as blackberries during the next fewdays and the 19th took part in them all, and were back at Cairo in time to be sent up the Nile in the ...

... further, one market gardener did something wonderful in the matter of tomatoes. Hlere, again, if tomatoes were as com- mon as blackberries they would soon be estimated at about the same value in the eyes of the general public. On the other hand it must be conceded ...

... the credit of growing them, for are not most things in this world, that are worth having, difficult to attain ? Whv even blackberries are always larger and finer at the top of the hedge over a deep ditoh. Remember the old Scotch proverb, Set your target ...

... 27 ge.; Honey Swlckle (1574), Mr. H. F. larper, Northnmpton, 19. gse ; Pellas (1716), Mr. A. G. Smitb, Bealinas, 180 ge ; Blackberry Jam (1324), Mr. H. Hills, 31 go.; Currant Wine (1424), Mrs. Willats, 19 gs.; Little Bird (1529), Mrs, Wiliits, 18 gs.; Grand ...

... lank faces, and hair curling ever their foreheads li la Disraeli, and hooked noses which would each have done duty for blackberry oroom—men such as those who used to he seen Sunday mornings in Houndsditch and Petticoat Lane, when it was tradition of ...