... ti Eli So this is the country! Evacuated children staying on Loch farm gather blackberries. ...

... A Paradox. The threate of fresh strikes are as pl«i ful the blackberry crop of this year it a paradox that all these threats sb* coincide with a particularly strong «lrt ruination to win the war.—Spectator. ...

... n are playing truant, women are leaving their kitchens and some men are absent from work. And all because the price of blackberries has soared to 7s stone, an all-time record. Every village has become a buying centre, and it possible for man helped by ...

... February. Fruits are to include Empire canned apricots, peaches, pears and pineapples, and home-produced plums, loganberries, blackberries, damsons and gooseberries. Canned carrots, broad beans, runner beans, etc., will be sold without surrender of coupons. ...

... Ruddier, the Snoth, only rinding fourih Winnen oi Sca'.i-Finata-Mr Mar.h. II * Blackberry (17) and Mr Jack* Puidler (14 (dead beat)—bHitnc. A 1 on Ruddier, 1 againal Blackberry; Mr lieod'a Mia*ey S'-betting. 4 on; Mr Arthur# Snob (23' A! betting. 2 1 again* ...

... The Latest Craac The very latest novelty to appear in the shops are ** blackberrying gloves,” which are in great demand just now. Made thick canvas, they protect the patriotic hedgerow hunters” from the thorns amid which the berries ripen. The Grand Theatre ...

... Two Wonderful Weeks MENU for breakfast: Bottled blackberries and cream, porridge and milk, bacon and egg, bannocks and home-made butter. No, it's not a dream. And it's not an extract from the Waldorf's bill of fare. It's what I've enjoyed for two weeks ...

... as they fall from the trees —in the intervals of training and blancoing kit. Around their camps on the English heaths blackberries are rotting, unharvested, by the ton. If the men were put to* picking berries it would help to reconcile them to their ...

... Mr Mack's Lady Voyage J16%); 2 Mr Cavanagh's Never Did ' (26%). Third Semi-Final—l Mr Coutts' Mill Girl '(8%); 2 Kidd's Blackberry (37). Fourth Semi! Final—l Wills' Willie Reid (28%); 2 Mr O'Neill's Street Singer (20%). Fi'-th Semi-Final —1 Mr Grant's ...

... agst. Second semi-final—l Campbell's Riccarton Lad (36V..), to 1 agst: Lauehlan's Blackberry (44%), evens. Final—l Riccarton Lad, 2 1 The Speaker, 6 to 4 on; 3 Blackberry, to 1 agst; 4 Brindle Jack, 8 to 1 agst. BLANTYRE.—2OO Yards Handicap (£ls)— First ...

... leg which is carrying your weight. Aa change from the usual stewed fruit dish, many housewives are serving stewed plums, blackberries, or apples with shredded wheat. Besides making things easier for the housewife, by saving work and cooking expense, shredded ...

... spectators, the ’keeper then doffed his jersev and pitched it in the face of the disconcerted referee. POISONED BY WILD BLACKBERRIES. Huntiy Boy Dead: Sister Seriously Id* Two children, aged 3i and li, belonging to Alexander Shearer, farm servant, Drumblair ...