... regular arm{ of blackberry pickers may be seen at work with their sharp hooks, which they use for reaching the higher clusters. It is no exaggeration to say that in country districtsnot Kent alone—scores and hundreds of pounds of blackberries are eaten in ...

... friends, for his voluntary services as lecturer at the parish church for the past year. MINSTREL troupes are as plentiful as blackberries now-a-days, but when such a combination contains lady performers it is not surprising that it should attract such a large ...

... rained. \%e reached Lamborne End at 12.40, and, oh, how it rained. ~After dinner in a foolish moment we undertook to pick blackberries. But it rained a perfect deluge, and we were soaked. We begui'fd our time, howver, with tea and playing games of hazard ...

... strain and bottle. Lmou syrup may be made in the same way, and these will be found superior to extracts for flavouring.— Blackberry cordial : Warm and squeeze the berries ; add to each pint of juice one pound of white sugar, one-half ounce of powdered ...

... who feed on, Common (I'm told) a breach of promise suit, And common, dsmnges, in cotrts agreed on ; Common are briefs as blackberries ; and fees Are common quite as “ leather and prunells ;* Common are ““ unprotected ” witnesses (* Credat”—as Horace somewhere ...

... and shaped like bells, And filled with sweetest smells. And T know “Where the most musical breezes blow, And where the blackberries ripen first, And how the squirrel’s babies are nursed, And when the nut burrs are ready to burst, Anl where the birds come ...

... carefuily leaf, bark, flower, fruit. What a silly thing it would be to judge by the bark vnlv, or by the flower only. A blackberry is the most reasonable berry under the sun and the best, but what a ferocious bush it grows on! Now, a man is entitled to ...

... good old Tory ring. BETHNAL GREEN (SOUTH-WEST). As in the North-east Division, Tory canvassers here ave as plentiful as blackberries, and although Mir. Pickersgill's canvass is actively proceeding, canvassers are still required, and those willing to act ...

... a squirrel with bushy tail, A wild pink rose, and a lily pale, A big-eyed cow with a “ crumpled ” horn, A nasty, brambly blackberry-thorn, (Just see how my new white dress is torn!) And butterflies, too, with gaudy wings, And numerous other pretty things ...

... remind you ?”- The young lady wwy answered “A prickly pear,” got the A uup-ruRTLE ean neither fly, sing, gallop, cry, or go blackberrying ; and yet, if they are let alone, they get along just as well as the ydung man who tries to be funny at a lawn party. A ...

... with' concealed anxiety. “They were in the still, in the cave over the spring, behind that big rock covered with vines and blackberry buslies. You could not find it, lessen you knowed it, ef you looked a year. The revynews hev gin up huntin’ fur it.” Carew ...

... There's apples in the orchard, and you can pick all you want.” TR e SR -‘.\‘l:lh:s Tittle Billy laughs aloud. “There's blackberries,” continues the mother, * and blueberries, if there's been a fire in the woods. There's a well, and there’s a river. Your ...