... Maidenhead, and a pair of hand screens are painted in decalcomanie by the same artist. A very pretty little basket of blackberries is modelled in wax by Ada Mary Goldsmith, of the same place, aged only seven years. A number of models in paper are cut ...

... instead of behind. The Gleaner's hat, as it the fashion to call tho Leghorn flat, is trimmed with wheat ears, oats and blackberries, the latter forming a wreath outside, a spray crossing over the brim at the back of the hat. Long scarves of ribbon, not ...

... by-and-bye there lies on the grass a keeper with his blood soaking away in the ferns, while the poachers rush through the blackberry bushes to hide their guns, and dodge the policeman when he comes next morning to inquire about that business in Squire ...

... find the reminiscences of our popular authoress; the lane where the rabbit pops out from tho long, rough grass under the blackberry bramble, where the wood-pigeon hides in his favourite beech tree, and the stealthy weasle rustles through the brushwood ...

... Thirty or forty years ago aristocrat pur sang espousing the cause of the people was a novelty; now they are as thick as blackberries. The supply of noble Radicals indeed far exceeds the demand, which languishes a little now that public opinion regards ...

... seem instrument convenient enough when inserted into a saucer of syrup, or applied to the broken surface of an over-ripe blackberry, but we often see our sipper sweets quite as busy on a solid lump of sugar, which we shall find, on close inspection, growing ...

... where 6aw an old crone stirring a black mixture in a huge cauldron, which looked like a compound of blacking. sloes, and blackberries plucked from the neighbouring hedges. ' What are you brewing there, my good woman ?' said my friend. The old witch, stirring ...

... were the hopes of the hunter so brilliant as at present. In the large covers of Graythwaithe foxes are as plentiful as blackberries, and in the plantations of the Heard they are swarming. The president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...

... land with their straggling beauty, shrouded the grassy borders of the pastures with catkined hazels, and tossed their long blackberry branches on the: corn fields. Perhaps they were white with May, or starred with pale pink dog-roses; perhaps the urchins ...

... either rabbits or winged game ; but he was not fully able to prove this, and the defence set u that the men were gathering blackberries. This cl xe was therefore dismissed. There was, however, a commit- ment in force against the defendant for a previous offence ...

... Gardiner, one pair to Mr. Moore, and two ir to Charles Pearce. In reply to the c Ware said he and his companion were blackberrying, and they found the boots in a ditch. The bench committed the prisoners Soley and Ware for trial to the Central Criminal ...

... wees Day.—This ancient custom appears to have received new vigour at Windsor this year, the guys being as plentiful as blackberries, and at night the whole neighbourhood was lighted up by bonfires. Windsor Steeple Chases.—There are to be two meetings ...