... protruded there without previous sound, sign, or token, came flying a well-aimed cloud of black mess—half a handful of blackberries chewed to pulp— splashing full into the middle of the treasured drawing. At the same moment a violent shove threw him off ...

... add four or five tablespoonfuls of water, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes, basting once or twice. Serve warm. Blackberry jam, if properly made, is quite an important nursery food. SWEET DISHES FOR THE LITTLE ONES. Rice pudding is made by washing ...

... and grass was growing between the wheel-ruts, but the soil flew up like smoke from the horse's hoofs and the wheels. The blackberry vines climbing over the stone walls on either side, and the meadow-sweet and handhack bushas were powdered thickly with ...

... rose-bush at each corner every summer, and I'm goin' to plant strawberries inside the wall, and I'm goin' to have a row of blackberry bushes outside. Your ma would like them things. It aint much, but it aint easy. And this is goin' to be your ma's Taj Mahal ...

... for our autumnal headgear, and a particularly pretty departure is evident at the present moment, in trails and bunches of blackberries. These combine delightfully with folds of white velvet, or on a purple (deep as the berries themselves) straw, with equally ...

... near a perfect food for fruit. Close and long continued observation in growing peaches, grapes, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and currants has fully convinced me that manures rich in potash, freely and intelligently used, will not only make large ...

... l'rize Competition.) Menu. Celery Soup. Beef-steak Pudding. Roast Pork and Apple Sauce. Potatoes. Boiled and Baked. Stewed Blackberries and Boiled Custard Stewed Damsons and Rice Pudding. Cheese, Celery, and Biscuits. CELERY SOUP.—inyredients.— Two mediumsized ...

... is the very best !) to go out into the thicket and prick her fingers and not mind it, as she heard the thud of the ripe blackberries falling into her little tin basin. It helps the mutual comprehension of widely different classes of people, and spreads ...

... is cooked enough, put a little of the jelly on a plate and see if it stiffens. Pour into jars and cover next day. From blackberries also a delicious jelly may be made, the absence of seeds in it is a decided advantage. To the albuminous class belong all ...

... mixed up smoothly with a little cold water. As it is a great pleasure and amusement to children in the country to gather blackberries, when they are ripe, and as they are a truly healthful and economical fruit, it is very advantageous to use them both as ...

... premium on my saltrisin' bread an' sponge cake. This black an' white piece Sally Ann Flint give me. I ricollect 'twas in blackberry time, an' I'd been out in the big pastur' pickin' some for supper, an' I stopped in at Sally Ann's for a drink o' water ...

... IN SCHOOL DAYS. STILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning ; Around it still the sumach' grow, And blackberry-vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats ...