... of the briar and thorn hats are too extraonlinary to be described, and the latest are the bramble ones, with clusters of blackberries in various stages of ripeness, which look for all the world as if the wearer had twisted up a shape for herself out of ...

... case is reported in which a young fellow was severely bitten by one of these vipers under peculiar circumstances. He was blackberrying with a friend. The friend was attacked by a copperhead, which the young lad killed. A few minutes later he was attacked ...