... The morning mist and evening haze Unlike this cold gTey rime— Seemed woven waves golden air, When I was in my prime. And blackberries—so mawkish now— Were finely flavoured then And hazel nuts ! such clusters thick ne'er shall pull again ; Nor strawberries ...

... , was tried for maliciously shooting at a young girl named Hicks. The prisoner caught the girl in a plantation picking blackberries ; he scolded her, and then discharged his gun, inflicting several wounds on her person. The defence was, that Hayter fired ...

... letter Mr. Black, on the 21st of April, wrote the following reply:— Reasons, my dear Sir, as Fal>taff says, ' are plenty as blackberries ; but I will give no man a reason on compulsion.' I refer you to Canon 101— * No license shall be granted but to such persons ...

... GLEANINGS. Why is a mouse like a soldier ?—Because he has an aversion to the cat. Blackberrying, according to a writer in the Charleston Courier, signifies the interment of a negro Another American journal says, that when a cat's tail is pinched between ...

... at the House and Blancard's, stole quantity of sovereigns at each, and thin disappeared. This summer they will plenty as blackberries. Each steamer will bring a fresh lot.'' —The following is the heading to one the Bath playbills : Theatre Royal, Bath. ...

... married three months, hung herself at Halsted, Essex, last week, because her husband remarked at dinner that a pudding of blackberries and apples was a strange mixture, and declined to partake of it. Thirteen arches of the viaduct erecting the Ribble Valley ...

... wife and daughters in their memorable attempt to cope with the great folks of the parish journeying to church on wall-eyed Blackberry and a colt that wanted a tail. We will give the sequel of the story the words of the Times, and then leave the reader to ...

... re of learning had also evidently been laid upon a foundation of good morals, for in observing the hedges covered with blackberries he commented severe terms upon the errors of those ungodly youths whose devotion on the Sunday consisted in picking this ...

... Smith he vanted then?; were not Protestant enough for them The Times rccom- 'hough Smiths your honour, were plentiful as blackberries mends that the College of Maynooth shall be more liberally autumn, hrom I drives the gempatronised, and he made ” fit receive ...

... of the money power; by th oss OF gan or of master; by considerations of private M embers have Instances are as thick as blackberries 11 1 which oice & not been returned to Parliament by the unbiasse an m the electoral body. Was Mr. Botfield retu biassed ...

... the Registrar-General, the following causes ol violent deaths England, in one year, are recorded:— Lightning, 15 persons; blackberries, I ; drinking boiling water, 6; drinking cold water, ; ahull, Godfrey's cordial, 2 ; lire, 22: a ferret, I ; cucumbers ...

... representation of Monmouthshire, for having committed the unpardonable sin voting for free trade. Examples are as plenty as blackberries, ln some counties we see the succession of a Liberal peer on the death of a Tory predecessor, or that of a Tory to a Liberal ...