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AN ELOPEMENT AND ITS FINISH

... remedy.-Galignani. TnE BABES IN THE WOOD.-A few days ago some children rambled out from Norwich as far as Helleadon, on a blackberry gathering exocreion, As evening closed in, two little things named Emily and James Thwaits, aged three and- four years ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... consequently, could never cultivate their hedge-sides properly, and were forced to be content is with soles, and hips, and blackberries, and anything else that came handy and by the grace of nature ; never able re to raise a bushel of grain for harvest-time ...

Literary Selections

... SMALL PHsILosorEsas.-The world is full of small philosophers, ready at a moment's notice to give you reasons as plenty as blackberries for anything whatever. They as a general thing believe that the changes of the moon have an important influence upon the ...

Poetry

... forget The least or thy sweet trifles I The window vines that clamber yet, Whose bloom the bee still rifles I The roadside blackberries growing ripe, And in the woods the Indian-pipe? Happy the man who fills his field, Content with rustic labour I Earth does ...

VARIETIES

... to be a moighty flue dinner here this evening. Tormmy is fond of sugar, and asked his moother for scone to eat with his blackberries. She refused. He ap. pearen resigned, but added gravely, 1You know, mamnma, 'whatbhappened round the corner? There was ...

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS IN LIVERPOOL

... promises them a holiday, with a view d to their being put out of the way, saying- '1 If you're very good, o You shbll pick blackberries 1in Ecttham wood v ARTruUn-A trip to Eastbam I Aviuenlar relation, HOw you have rnsen In our Estham-ation I t EDITII-HOW ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... stream of life as has been flowing to him through the eyes. There are eyes which give no more admission into them than blackberries; others are liquid and deep wells that men might fall into ; and others are oppressive and devouring, and take too much ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... and there are h ldyt, mulitues of bad teachers. Pedantic pedagogues, of in 'sthe Dlr.B~limber cass re As plentiful as blackberries, and ho the mill~horo system of education is still in vogue. Over, a crammed students rarely tarn out well, while those ...

AUTUMN EXHIBITION OF PICTURES

... `?naresborcu-h asatle. (J4)hn Finnie), £53; 638, F rimnlas (MissL 669, Tnt Fading Year (Miss Ada Bell), £t; 672, :Blackberry Bilossomn (Miss S. Leighton), £4 4s. ' 688, A Hei'd (Miss B. Coleman), £4 4o.; 708, West Loch, Tarbert (J. 0. Long) ...

THE AUTUMN EXHIBITION, WALKER ART GALLERY

... G. A. Lawson.-Is a very fine bronze figure. No. 1068, Blackberry Picking-The Thornm E. B. Stephens, AJR.A.-A lovely statue of a girl pulling a thorn out of her hand caused by picking blackberries. No. 1069, Colonel Bousfield, and 1070, Mirs. Bousfield ...

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER

... erie ornament is added at the waist, or towards one shoulder; the greatest novelty in this way, however, is a bunch of blackberries, walnuts, chestnuts, or some other autumn or winter fruit, imitated in plush or velvet. For more ceremonious toilettes ...

COUNTRY LIFE

... unon differently d from that earned by steady-going labour on the field or farm. In their season he gathers cresses and blackberries, the embrowned nuts constituting an autumn in themselves. Snipe and woodcock which r come to the marshy meadows in severe ...