... with a damp cloth. jam is improved greatly by adding half a pound of peeled and cored sour sharp apples to every pound of blackberries. Malta is an old saying that a woman can throw out with a spoon faster than a wan can throw in with a shovel. Without reference ...

... 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 Briarileld to Uncle Bedford's neighbourhood. Flossie Denton was ever the leading spirit, ...