... leek kind, but these are very few; however, I am informed that some large ones are found inland. The country also produces blackberries, blaeberries, gooseberries and cranberries ; the last are used for curing the scurvy, which sometimes prevails the northern ...

... infants as ever heerd tell on, includin' them aswos kivered over the robin redbreasts arter they'd committed sooicide with blackberries, there never any like that 'ere little Tony. He's alvays a playin' with a quart pot that boy is ! To see hi a sittin' down ...

... matters are rapidly tending, and they will erect churches and hatch curates until both become as plentiful as FaUtaff s blackberries. If something be not done, and that speedily, to arrest the progress of this moral plague, the contagion will continue ...

... should parade the street with you arm in arm, else you will lean upon a broken reed—these promises are as plentiful as blackberries, but their fulfilment is indefinitely postponed. Never intrude upon a friend who gives you a general invitation to take ...

... republicans ot the public playground. Then, is such an easy thing to get one of the students of divinity, who are as common blackberries; and, why, he can be both chaplain and tutor—how convenient and re. injectable ! There are, doubtless tions more reasonable ...

... her will, believing her to be one of the sweet children the wood, come out of it, and issuing forth mice more to look for blackberries the young freshness of her heart ! What words can paint the Pecksniffs that trying hour? Oh, none: for words have naughty ...

... feneed for all useful por; The frequent attacks of illness to which Sir W. Follett is liable, originated in a surfeit of blackberries, when a schoolboy at Eton. The Athen@um has learned, on the authority ofa letter, that the gallant Sir Robert Dick is like- ...

... one wi.o»e vanity will purchase everything, but whose pride will cheapen nothing. Fallacies.—Fallacies are plentiful as blackberries, on any subject where men's passions are engaged. The lection, in any instance, is col how many reasons can utged, but ...

... —piue ; M‘Intosh — boxwood ; Mackay —bullrush ; M‘Kenzie—deer grass ; M‘KKinnoa—St wort ; M‘Lachlan—mountain ash; M‘Lean—blackberry heath; M‘Leod—red wertle berries ; M‘Nab—rose back ber- ries ; M*Neil—seaware ; M‘Phersoun—variegated box- wood; M‘Qaarrie—black ...

... that I was sent to fetch the bulletin which would have kept ine Irons a nice party, that was go out for the gathering of blackberries, complained, tears in eyes, ny brother J)jnicl, .bout this of an auld wi.e that would neither die nor get better, Tut ...