... they do great damage by picking out the centre or heart. Pheasants do the same, eating in addition berries, especially blackberries ; but in the spring months they are amazingly destructive to enrlfi-dibbled beans and peas, and will fre. quently destroy ...

... Dundee Directors scooted this suggestion—their reasons I never beard—for, like Falstaff, although reasons were plentiful as blackberries with them, they would give no mao reason on compulsion. That they now find to their cost they committed a serious blunder ...

... by the amazingly luxuriant vegetation all round Londoo, and the coutinued abundance of home-grown fruit, among which the blackberry is coming into daily use, probably owing to the late mention made of it iu the Lancashire papers, for it has seldom before ...

... The morning mist and evening haze (Unlike this cold gray rime) Seemed woven warm of golden air— When I was in prime. And blackberries—so mawkish now—- Were finely flavored then ; And nuts—and reddening clusters ripe I ne’er shall pull again. Kor strawberries ...

... in those latitudes, abounding with the nitrate of soda. This valuable commodity was represented to be as plentiful as blackberries. The ground, for miles, was described as being coated with it. Nothing was required, in short, but to take it op, and bring ...

... nature; and that three men, dressed in smock frocks, and having the appearance of countrymen, have been selling heath brooms, blackberries, and a smaller species of wild berry, the Whitechapebroad. Airful Occurrence.—Kn event has lately occurred in Birr which ...

... barrels of his fowling-piece girl sixteen years old, who had stepped from her father's garden into plantation to gather blackberries. Several shots entered into the poor girl's bodv. Falling of a Railway Tunnel. —A most fearful accident, involving the ...