| Vol. I.—No. 38. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
| Tuesday, July 20, 1880. | Copyright, 1880, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
THE BIGGEST BLACKBERRY PICKER.
BY W. O. STODDARD.
Dot Calliper had come out on the mountain-side, with all the rest ofthem, after blackberries.
She had picked her little pail full industriously, but she was too fatand too small to climb any further among the rocks and stumps andbushes, so they had left her there, in the shade of the greatchestnut-tree, to watch the milk-pails.
Not that there was any milk in them just now, for all three of them weremore than half full of great, plump, overgrown berries—blackberries,and the best and largest anybody had ever seen among those mountains.Such a season for berries!
There had been a great fire three years before, and it had burned thewoods away, and nobody knew where the blackberry bushes had co