... when thus challenged, exclaims, in his own mock heroics, ** Give youa reason on compulsion? If reasons were as plent z, as blackberries, [ would give no man a reason on compulsion. From such an important personage we must just take thankfally what we can ...

... on the summit Calendar wood, might have seen the splendid prospect studded all over with churches and chapels, thick as blackberries, both connexion with the Establishment and with the go-ahead bodies that have shook themselves free of her trammels. There ...

... average heat was but moderate, some of the grapes approached the size of small gooseberries, and many were as large as blackberries; but this year it has not offered so much as to flower, which says more for the coldness of the season than anything else ...

... Switzerland. Tortoni's beats Chamouni hollow for ices, even for strawberry-ice, though strawberries in the Alps are as plenty blackberries elsewhere. As to peach-ice, apricot-ice, and pine-apple ice, when you reach the summit of the Alp, or the Faulhorn, you ...

... feathery tufts as high as minaret. Wherever I looked the vegetable world was all novelty in its beauty and grandeur. Save the blackberry, the ivy, and a sort of wild lint-bell, I recognised not one old friend among the ' field-flowers.' The fig-tree—the nopal—the ...

... beginning to pour out the delicacies of the season. Beautiful melons are abundant, and grapes will shortly as plentiful as blackberries. In some parts of Spain they cannot consume, the abundance grapes, and are obliged to throw them away loads. In others ...

... and, if we may believe the last accounts, was already the heroine of the day. Sonnets and serenades were plentiful as blackberries. ...

... old—lst, Mr Thos. Geddes, Whitburn; 2d, Mr Graham, East Whitburn. the best pair of Cows- lst, Mr Smith; 2d, Mr Geo. Wallace, Blackberry Hill. the best Cow in milk, and 2 of her offspring—lst, Thos. Geddes; 2d, Mr John Montgomery. or the best Quey in milk, ...

... it „'Lk denied that they presented a shocking appearance heeding noses, scarred foreheads, bumps, and bra' plentiful as blackberries, and it was only those who cpU ' fortune to insure their bodies before they started who ))( , e» comforted under the affliction ...

... flowers that are know n, but also the richest roi such as the apple, pear, pencil, plum, apricot, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, &c.; namely, that f«»«tfils of plants belonging to this family have ever been discovered by geologists. This he regarded ...

... which are known, but also the richest fruits, such as tbe apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, cherry, straw berry, raspberry, blackberry, &C, namely, that no fossils of plants belonging to this family have ever been discovered by geologists. This he regarded ...

... A RATTLESNAKE STORY. Last fall, woman residing in the vicinity of Worcester was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, bright-eyed little fellow of less than a year old. The babe sat upon tbe ground in a square ...