... my bort. And presently, coining to a little diogle, about ball a mile down the bill-side, well bid with dead bracken and blackberry booties, I consulted with the girl, The place was well sbelter'd from the wind that rock'd the tree-tops, and I fear'd to ...

... neighbourhood of Sydney, each fruit as the peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, fig, grape, cherry, and orange are as plentiful as blackberries. The orangeries and orchards of New South Wales are among its sights ; and an the neighbourhood of Sydney and Port Jackson ...

... colour, and four or five average ones makes quart. The seeds have all been eliminated from our cultivated raspberries, blackberries, currants and gooseberries- Their fruit is marvellously delicate in flavour, especially so the two former. In all the centuries ...

... air, God's happy little birds are singing loudly. It is very pleasant to be in the plantation, amongst the trees and the blackberry beds and the birds; both Rosalind and Alec feel that. The girl is the first to resume the conversation. ----- Now, Alec ...

... life. They were limited for breakfast to one slice of corn-bread and two spoonsfuls of homing (corn meal) tea made of dried blackberry leaves, or coffee of parched corn, without milk or sugar. A Catholic lady lent them a cow. They saved cream to make a little ...

... education. The mysteries of her mother's still-room were unfolded. There she preserved fruit, made cordials, currant wine, and blackberry brandy, and assisted in preparing and arranging all kinds of herbs, even some medical decoctions. Still the decorum of manner ...

... deep hollow, whose bottom was covered with half-frozen water, and whose sides were bung with a rich tangle of clematis and blackberry vines, and the fading glory of gorse and bracken. The dame piled her basket with pests, and turned her face towards the ...

... his wife into afternoon t'a or dejeuner a la faurchette as the case might be. The robin's food consists of elderberries, blackberries, flies, beetles, earwigs and worms, and indeed the number of injurious insects destroy( d in a day by this feathered songster ...

... by boiling together a half pound of good brown sugar to every pound of blackberries until the fruit was soft. It was then put in preserving jars in the usual way. Another blackberry jam is made by putting the fruit into a preserving kettle and boiling ...

... bit by bit the story what he, poor boy, regarded as his wrongs. He — told me that, the evening before, he had gone out blackberrying in the lane that climbs straight up the hill above the Ness. A shower came on. and he took shelter under the trees by the ...

... orearneriee and jam factories and ham factories, and grow tons of good fruit and vegetables, as well as your farm stuff. Why blackberries rot by the bushel in Ireland, which would fetch pounds is England. Cranberries, too, pay like anything, and a great basket ...

... the gale, and by the pyramidal priv, t blossomy, still stronger in ohm, but lees obtrusive in display. These again by the blackberry, clustering woodbine and elder, whose lovely, white, plattershaped flowers can ba seen and smelled from afar. Beneath these ...