[Illustration: Phebe with a Basket of Berries.]




THE BLACKBERRY GIRL.

PART II.


"What have you in that basket, child?"
"Blackberries, Miss, all pick'd to-day;
They're very large and fully ripe;
Do look at them, and taste them pray."

"O yes: they're very nice, indeed.
Here's fourpence--that will buy a few:
Not quite so many as I want--
However, I must make it do."

"Nay, Miss, but you must take the whole;"
"I can't, indeed, my money's spent;
I should he glad to buy them all,
But I have not another cent."

"And if you had a thousand, Miss,
I'd not accept of one from you.
Pray take them, they are all your own.
And take the little basket, too.