... furnish the farmer with a cordial cup on his return from market on a winter’s eve, blackberries, reminding of the Babes in the Wood ; ° « Their little hands with blackberries Were all besmeared and dyed. And when they saw the darksome night, They sat them ...

... the back of the leaves, which are their parts of fructification. The leaves of the Beech tree now assume yellow tinge. Black-berries are now ripe, and the collecting of them affords an agreeable pastime to the yonnger branches of the peasant’s family, ...

... parts the coasts of Northumberland and Durham. The framework knitters near Leicester find it more profitable to gather blackberries for sale than to pursue their ordinary occupation. Emigration from county Fermanagh present more than usually brisk, owing ...

... the maintenance of religion other respects. In times of electioneering excitement, professions are cheap and “plenty as blackberries;” but what the Protestants of Belfast really want, is men who, from sober conviction, are attached to Protestant truth ...

... —Vis cala-day with her -behold! leaves nearly cover'd with plurn.ige Whilst far in the depth* of the covert* below. The blackberry -blossoms are scatter'd like snow. High upward, the thresher nhtstllog lay. And the red-crested woodpecker hammer* away— ...

... l*evoa, has been committed for trial for firing at and wounding a giti 16 years old, named Maria Hicks, who was plucking blackberries. plantation in which the offence was committed adjoined the garden of the girl father; there was no fence or other partition ...