... THE DEVIL'S BERRIES. Blackberries are the objects of ,41 strange superstition in some parts of the country. There is an ancient belief that blackberries must be gathered before September 30th, on which date every year the Devil leaves his mark on the ...

... County Council hereby intimate that it is proposed to take on lease (First), the Northern Portion of the Field known as BLACKBERRY QUOYS, part of the Farm of Freswick Mains, belonging to Edwin Sinclair Alexander Sinclair, Esquire of Freaffick, and tenanted ...

... (German), cucumbers, sweet potatoes (South American), &c., &c.; and of fruits, apples, peers, cherries, walnuts, cranberries, blackberries, red currants, &c., &c. Upon the whole, crops have been good for 1882, and there is an abundance for home consumption, ...

... interrupted, reproachfully, Yes, and mother', lung comb, too I A LADY wishes to know the best way of marking table linen. Blackberry pie is our choice, although a baby with a gravy dish highly esteemed by many. A DOG is a natural humorist, isn't he? said ...

... a match lately—and the respectability the Penninghame curlers so unquestioned, elders and deacour being an pleotiful as blackberries in August—• lily visitor who saw the curlers returning with their brooms, escleimed, Dear me ! the times must be bad ...

... the delicious huckleberry is much in evidence, and a few minutes' stroll through the woods brings us into the region of blackberry bushes. We sit in our own doorway at times and see Nature her smiling moods when the sunrise or sunset or moonlight effect ...

... engaged for the conflict, and if the committee find enough of money they will find Parliamentary aspirants as plentiful as blackberries. To such a pass has nineteenth century Toryism come. The chivalrous spirit has disappeared, and the battle of the party ...

... nor the one following, but no attention had been paid to On fact. Oa the third day some children, who were I eliciting blackberries near the village, were attracted the normal movements of dog which !sated them, them, to a spot where be was pawing up ...

... military phenomenon who shot Prussians like sparrows, and to whom the helmets of hie dead enemies were as plentiful as blackberries—abould now tuns out to have bees nothing bet a Prussian spy. must go far towards exhausting the fund of Periaan credulity ...

... for tea harvest bands, did a two weeks' washing and the milking, made a colico dress, practised her music lee. son, went blackberrying, gathered a gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concert, and walked home again before bedtime. AN OLDEN ...

... boy pulls forth • monse's meat: ♦nd then the tempting bramblemoths invite the balms again, Their pretty mouths with blackberries so sweet and ripe to stain ; And many a brown not slips its sheath to share, poor little thing. A bunting pocket with a ...

... Fruil Juices.—Take a quantity of any kind of fresh berry fruit (red currant, black currant, cherry, gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry, cranberry, &c. ; also plums and rhubarb). Clean the fruit, and put it into an enamelled goblet or jelly pan. (Rhubarb should ...