... interesting instance of his gourmand taste. The 'crop of a greyhen which I opened, he says, contained rasp- berries, blackberries, ants, heather, grass, and oats, and the bird, after having half filled her crop with the grain, had evidently com- pleted ...

... prove this-that Biblical olive grove ; and the mule-path, suggestive of hunts for wild flowers (or blackberries in season, for the ubiquitous blackberry grows here beside the caper and the pepper), and picnics up among the pine groves; and that olive mill ...

... electioneering of its old picturesque features. There was a time when anec- dotes of election contests were as plenty as blackberries,' but ana of this subject must now be regarded as complete. If there is any butcher in these days who, with excusable venality ...

... the plan seems reasonable enough. Secretaryships being comparatively rare, while would-be secretaries are as plentiful as blackberries, it enables the employer to winnow out ineligible candidates. The concern finds its resources increased by additional capital ...

... Fisher is President of the National Skating Association, and has won its badge. And as for Old Blues, they are as common as blackberries at St. Stephen's. ...

... the wild strawberry might, with a little care, become a most agreeable addition to our list of fruits, and possibly the blackberry, with some small attempt at cultivation, might almost rival the mulberry. Undoubtedly there is much land and there are many ...

... a steep hill marked Dangerous to Cyclists. It is a beautiful country, the road bordered by tall hedges covered with blackberries, on which the Boy had a feed. The landlady persuaded him to try some of her choice halfpenny cigars. I think he wofully ...

... In her haste she stumbled over roots of trees, she caught her foot in a rabbit-hole, she tore her skirt to ribbons in a blackberry bush-but all was no matter-nothing, nothing was any matter so long as she arrived in time. Already she heard the grunt of ...