He picks the forget-me-nots from the streams and the 'blue-bottle' from the corn: bunches of the latter are sometimes sold in London at a price that seems extravagant to those who have seen whole fields tinted with its beautiful azure.

By-and-by the golden wheat calls for an army of workers; but the moucher passes on and gathers groundsel.
Then come the mushrooms: he knows the best places, and soon fills a basket full of 'buttons' picking them very early in the morning.

These are then put in 'punnets' by the greengrocers and retailed at a high price.

Later the blackberries ripen and form his third great crop; the quantity he brings in to the town is astonishing, and still there is always a customer.

The blackberry harvest lasts for several weeks, as the berries do not all ripen at once, but successively, and is supplemented by elderberries and sloes.