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of the year will see old women and children waiting near the public roads in hopes of meeting passengers to whom they may offer their large baskets filled with raspberries, or whortleberries; the baskets are made of birch-tree bark." The children followed the carriage continually, and when they received a few pence as payment for their fruits, would endeavour to induce the travellers to accept more, and expressed their gratitude by bowing to the ground. Dr. Clarke had tarts made of the berries thus purchased; but he adds, that the Swedes, at that time, never made this use of them, probably owing to the scarcity of sugar.

In Canada the people commonly take their baskets and go out "berrying" in the woods during the raspberry season. Mrs. Moodie describes some of the shores of Stony Lake as abounding in these fruits, the banks being formed of large masses of limestone, on which the rich Cardinal flower and brilliant Tiger lily displayed their magnificence, while beautiful Water lilies abounded in the clear waters. This lake, which the Indians call by a name which seems to signify the Indian's grave, lies in the heart of the wilderness. "The only clearing upon its shores," says Mrs. Moodie, "had been made some years before, so that a second growth of young branches of the Red Cedar had sprung up, and the spot was covered with raspberry bushes, several hundred acres being entirely overgrown with this delicious berry. It was here that we used to come annually in large picnic parties to collect this valuable fruit for our winter preserves, in defiance of black flies,

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