... SITTING HENS.—Farmers' wives of the old school say, that hens should never be allowed to sit during the season that the blackberry is in blossom. There is an old saw to the same effect which runs thus Between the sickle and the scythe, What you rear ...

... and alleys leading froin St. Mary- treet, in all of which places he will rind. dangerousBt idisances'* as plentiful- as blackberries are in Autumn Nti ?or what he has done, aud for the effective manner inflT vhich he has accomplished his unpleasant task ...

... little girls, the children of a small farmer named Young, residing near Freyslrop, Pembrokeshire, went out to the to gather blackberries, when on® of them, tempted by the appearance of some of the fruit which grew in the mouth of an otd coalpit, ventured to ...

... Eng- land, and that Liverpool and Manchester are each among the places to which a new Bishop will be appointed. BLACKBERRY JELLY.—Blackberries (which are now in season) make a delicious jelly of finer flavour than that of any other fruit. It is made in ...

... Jones's prophecy, that the days of the Abergavenny Eisteddlod are numbered—I think not. False prophets are numerous as blackberries. Whether the Bard will be an unit in addition to these, time alone can reveal. I sincerely hope, for the next Eisteddfod ...

... gets his full shure. In autumn. independently of the corn fields, he can gain an honest sub- sistence by frequenting the blackberry, wild raspberry, or dewberryi In winter he revels in the seldom-failing beech htast, diversifying the regimen occasionally ...

... saffron butterfly appears. Hips and haws now ornament the hedges. The berries of the briony and the privet, the barberry, the blackberry, the holly, and the elder, from which is made the famous winter wine of old Eng- land's peasantry, with sloes, bullaces ...