... the piece of silver. I hope to find my treasure before I die.' Adrian did not answer. He sat looking at the high-tangled blackberry hedge, with its luxuriance of leaf and bramble, clusters of 'blossoms and fruit, in all its stages between bud and berry ...

... pasture as Michaelmas Eve. In the southern counties of Ragland there is • belief that the devil puts his cloven foot on the blackberries on Mi and it is therefore unlucky to any after that date. In Scotland the is said to throw his cloak over them, thee the ...