BLACKBERRY PIE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 81, 5 April 1930, Page 18

BLACKBERRY PIE

Gus and Bob were brothers. They lived in a s'nutft country town where Maoris squatted and smoked and gossiped in the shade of the "More verandah. Now, in those days there were, of course, no electric irons, but some womon had mangles and with these they would, for a small payment, press the clothes of their neighbours. ' , One day Bob and Gus went lo fetch their mother's washing from Mrs.' Clark/ The way led along a dusty road bordered with blackberry vine?. And Ihe berries were ripening. / "Look! Here's some beauties'."said Bob as he, lifted a prickly branch. . . Gus came up wearing the clothes basket as, a. hood over his head and shoulders. "Let's pick some and take them home for Mother to make a pie." • They picked till they had gathered enough for a fine, large pie, and the bollom of the basket was thickly covered.- Then they.went on ' for the clothes-and, having got them, neatly packed them on top of the berries. , _ ■ r, .• But, sad lo say,' the blackberries were 100 ripe. For, when the boys eagerly lifted the clothes lo show ihem to their mother, there were ugly .stains on those that had been just on top of them. She was very angry, and, as you may guess, the boys did,not taste -blackberry pie that day.' » GLADYS AVERY.