... days there were poachers on the Tweed. So there are now ; and so like- wise it may be said sheepstealers were plentiful as blackberries. They are more uncommon now. Yet with all our foreign imports, in addition to our own rearing, neither mutton nor beef ...

... number ot eminent lawyers who have been distinguished in literature is not great. Bacons have not been exactly as common as blackberries, and the list of Chancellors, Chief Justices, or learned jurists in general, who have made their mark in letters, does ...

... 'lioseberry. lleremarks: The combination of the cultivated raspblbrry(the product of many) centuries) with the rustic blackberry-the Imperial purple with the Radical red-is aninteresting horticultural experiment, but flil all hybrids it is liable to ...

... prove to have been at all invariably attended by injury to the fruit. The crop is reckoned half an average. Iledgenuits, blackberries, and mushrooms are plentiflith Vt of England this season, and the great abundance of ordinaryh nu'tsi remarked from other ...

... here and there by an atom of white, that shows us where the acrid wild plum will be found in the autumn, when doubtless blackberries will also abound about the low-growing bushes, that in their turn are also newly-dressed in emerald leaves. The soft white ...

... induced our party-managers in latter days to sub- stitute the lady for the male canvasser. Though reasons be as plentiful as blackberries, the average elector will vote for no one on compulsion. The more a fellow-man attempts to teach him the more resentful ...

... their bill of fare then is an agree- able contrast to the luxuries of the coops and the feeding-whistle. The pheasant likes blackberries, sloes, haws, seeds of various kinds, tender leaves, and insects. How the old-fashioned hedgerow offers all these I And ...

... Porthlo nestles on the hillside. Then, leaving Carn Marvel and Sandy Bar, with the slopes between alive with fern and juicy blackberries, we cross the Roads, our pilot assuring the nervous that the terrible Dammy Sin- ncrs ledge is well to windward. Away ...

... dinner table are luxuries our forefathers knew nothing of. Dinner- table decoration was restricted to holly and ivy and blackberry sprays, or the sparse products of the con- servatory grudgingly contributed by the gardener, and looked upon by him as pure ...

... summer they have, in addition, grubs, beetles, and inwects. In autumn they have their share of the grain harvest, of the blackberries, which are then so plentiful in the hedgerows, and of the tender parts of the still-growing clover. In winter they manage ...

... remarkable experiences of new crops. His first idea, derived from a daily paper of unques- tioned sobriety, was to grow blackberries for jam-making. He bought a number of first-class brambles, which were to bear, so the nursery gardeners said, fruit ...

... the other. As we drew near the village, groups of children returning from the Ecole Communale interrupt their raid on the blackberry bushes, (though covered with dust, the fruit to them is just as sweet), to look slily at us, and give us a passing bon ...