... but after being swept should be wiped over with a damp cloth. BLACKBERRY jam is improved greatly by adding half a pound of peeled and cored sour sharp apples to every pound of blackberries. THERE is an old saying that a woman can throw out with a spoon ...

... by the young people of the adjacent village and vicinity in pleasure parties to the woods, and numerous excursions to the blackberry thicket which gave the name of Briarfield to Uncle Bedford's neighbourhood. Flossie Denton was ever the leading spirit, ...