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He might have called in on an ancestor of the inhabitants of
Bellevue Farm.
Did he look at the large numbers of
ripening berries and fear that his
parishioners would suffer a hard winter
or rejoice that there would be plenty of
food for the birds? Perhaps he picked
some sloes for his housekeeper to make
jelly or sloe gin . . . or blackberries for
jams, jellies and puddings.
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