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 asking a blessing on their labours and teaching the
 scholars to become good Christians while instructing
 them in all things which the very poorest of our chil-
 dren ought to be taught, to prove that they were not
 reared in a heathen land.
 She also made them wiser, and often in autumn
 rambled with them in what remained of the old forest,
 telling them all about the wild fruits, and which they
 might gather and eat, and pointing out those which
 were to be avoided; for many that look very beautiful
 to the eye, and do no injury to the birds, are not suit-
 able for human food. She let them eat their fill of
 blackberries, when they were ripe, and allowed them to
 carry home the sloes and bullaces to store up for win-
 ter, and didn't mind them smearing their little faces
 with the juice, for it was soon washed off when they
 returned. She showed them how to distinguish the
 dewberry from the blackberry, by holding it in a
 favourable light, when they saw the purple bloom on
 it, like a plum. They carried home the wild raspber-
 ries to preserve; and many a rich pudding bad they,
 when the wind was blowing through the old forest
 on his winter-trumpet, and the birds out shivering on
 the leafless trees. She told them how dangerous it
 was to health to partake of the rich scarlet berries of
 the woody nightshade, which are almost as tempting as
 ripe red currants to look at. She pointed out the fruit
 of the bird-cherry, which is first green, and then red,
 and at last as dark as purple grapes, and told them
 that it must only be eaten in moderation; for when she
 herself was only a little girl, Old Jacob, the gardener,
had taken her by the hand, and pointed out the wild
fruit that she might freely partake of, and shown her
such as were injurious. The lessons of the good old
grey-haired man she had never forgotten, and was very