... ; the ruffians did not quarrel, and one slay the other; the wood was a London court, in which there were neither blackberry bushes nor robin-redbreasts And for this cruelly deserted, helpless babe there was reserved a better fate, perhaps ...

... seen in the flame of wood. It it • curious fact, and but very little known, that the only native fruits of England are the blackberry or bramble, the parent of the raspberry, which is itself found wild in many parts of Scotland and Wales; the strawberry ...

... delicious home-made bread, or plain light cake, or nice puffy scones on baking day? Couldn't little children gather baskets of blackberries or other fruits in season, for the sick people? And in winter time work for little sales of gifts in aid of the children's ...

... insisted on his continuing. This accordingly he did, and showed plainly that if merry sayings were with him as plentiful as blackberries in simple time, grave speech, earnest, forcible an solemn appeal, was by no means foreign to his capacity. Mrs. Harrison ...

... to be almost a specific for dropsy. Tomatoes stimulate the action of the liver, as well as lemons and other acid fruits. Blackberries, black currants, and red raspberries are excellent correctives of bowel troubles, such as diarrhwa and dysentery. Celery ...

... IN BCHOOLDAYS. Still sits the schoolhouse by the toad. A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry-vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by rape offtcial; The warping floor, the battered seata ...