1771. The berry-gatherer (fig. 415.) is formed like the scissors and pincers above mentioned: it is worked by the hand like common scissors, and is used for gathering gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, and such fruits as should be touched by no other hand than that which conveys them to the mouth. Some opulent proprietors have branches of fruit shrubs cut off and brought to table, as bouquets, in elegant china vases; or have their strawberries grown in pots, and thus served up to be gathered as used, &c. Jerome Bonaparte, when king of Westphalia, passing through Warsaw, on his way to Moscow, in the campaign of 1812, had branches of cherry trees laden with fruit held upright by soldiers round his table like a sort of grove, from the branches of which, extending over their heads, he and his guests gathered their dessert,
