... with an alternative of fourteen days’ hard l labour. BOW BRICKHILL. Tar AvTuMN.—Harvesting season is now in full swing. Blackberrying is beginning, and \ mushrooming is proving a profitable way of filling up spare moments. From all appearances they are ...

... was the birthday of Mr. R. E. Prothero, M.V.0., who was born at Clifton-on- Teme, on September 6th, 1852, Bedfordshire blackberries are said to be not quite so forward as those in the south, but thero is a big crop. Mr. A. H. Allen has entered on his ...

... MUSHROOMS, The companion occupation of blackberry picking is gathering mushrooms in the early dawnp before the farm bands are stirring. There is an average crop of mushrooms this year but not many find their way to the shop keepers. Home demands generally ...

... BLACKBERRIES AND MUSHROOMS. THIS YEAR'S CROPS. Although the blackberry season is delayed this year owing to the late summer, the consequence of lack of sunshine, the supply is expected to exceed that of recent years. Other fruit being so scarce, a plentiful ...

... made no comment but entered the statement in his diary (laughter). He suffered many privations in his early life, eating blackberries for breakfast, dinner, and supper, and sleeping on a stone floor. One of Wesley's maxims was “Cleanliness is next to Godliness ...

... vhe whear crop. Other crops do not seem ‘e nave suftered so much. Mangolds war’ rain badlv, and swede crops are a failure Blackberries want rain, or thev won’t ripen. The effect on the milk sunpl= is very cerious, and the price of butter has gone up in ...

... WINSLOW. Fruir Axp VEceranLes.—Blackberries are selling at Id. per pound, good cooking apples are only fetching Is. 6d. and Is. a bushel in some of the villages, and potatoes are selling at 3s. 6d. per hmfiwl. ...

... Police Court on Monday week with having indecently assaulted Florence Ivory, a little girl eleven years of age, when blackberrying at Caddington on 23rd August. As there were other children within sight when the offence was alleged to have been committed ...

... one which had occurred on the other side of the village. No cause could be traced, and he could only assume that when blackberrying the woman came across a bad smell. Mr. Britten said the woman had been out in the fields in all kinds of weather, and it ...

... several aweeks past been festooned with dog roses, and wery pretty they have looked. og‘he? flowers of the dewberry and blackberry are less conspicuous, but they, too, are pretty. I never wemember seeing the Delphiniums so fine and atately. Many of them ...

... unexpected immersion in the Grand Junegion Canal on Thursday. He and two lads named Ritcher and Buttrum, were gather'ing blackberries frem the Vicar's canoe near the Black Bridge, when an unexpected move‘ment by one member of the party caused the - boat ...

... 'l'hursda} momini a sad accident occurred to Mrs. John Smit iunr., She started off with her younfiest child to pick some blackberries, and when near the sfring on the road to the ‘“Plough Inn” she slipped in %etting some of the fruit and broke her leg. ...