... about 1,600. There cannot be a more primitive soil for an estate occupied for centuries by a family of distinction. The wild blackberry grows in the middle of what is called the lawn, and the whole place is, or rather was (for some improvements have been made) ...

... There will-be a profusion of fine-sounding phrases;i and sincere, ardent lovers of.liberty, will .be as plentiful as blackberries. Whenever the people come in contact with a patriot of this description, let them not fail to look at him with a penetrating ...

... spile their good looks, and make their jackets seem like hedgehogs, but corfs, colds, and infduency, will be as plenty as blackberries. Tom Dawson, Bob Heseltine and Co., will nap it in their country quar- ters if they don't look out. Well, what's sarce ...

... MIRACLES. Asplentiy as blackberries.-FALSTAFF in 1. Henry IV. Now that MIRACLES, like reasons (and very un- like any thing of the sort) are plenty as blackberries, no one expresses the least surprise at passing events, however strange, and above ...

... Wlidl fruit of all kinds was never more abundant ftlu ' luring the present season.-brinelble-berries, sloes, hrzl- atits, blackberries, walnu ts is, and hin-S. 'T'he mountaln Isli's everywhere are, beautiful to behold, covered as thilty Iirn inprecidentedly ...

... gentleman, apropos of anchovy sauce, remarked that he had seen the anchovy growing wild, as thick and almost as large as blackberries ; upon the suggestion that the anchovy was not of the vegetable kingdom, he fired up, and asked whether his word were doubted ...

... Carts otn either Side of the Course, with the People in Froit of them, and the Grand Statid crowtded with Heads, plenty as Blackberries, and seemiing, indeed, with their ?? ott, like a huge NMa!ss of them. A Throng of Carriages about its, mostly four-irs-hand ...

... bleat, or the Lord tolhelp me.' Another pause in our proceedings, during which a com- pany of ragged boys, who had been black-berrying, came up, and planted themselves, with every symptom of vulgar curiosity, around the carriage. Miss Norman bad now no ...

... send letter a thousand miles for a penny, and bur week's reading for twopence. We publish books faster than brambles bear blackberries, and produce plays as fast as the French write them. We can feed paupers on ninepenee halfpenny a day, and make artificial ...

... allowed fall swing in violence till a Magistrate could obtained to read the Riet Act. Wpere Magistrates as plectilt as blackberries, they could not always be procured in time prevent the commission of incalculable mischief. WVc look upon Mr. ROEBUCK'S ...

... poor beast .so worrie,dl 'R6und oneithicket; ?? that, and. Jto.a third; back again to the first, round, an oak,. into s.blackberry bush; out again,waway among. some trees,. back- agai - 'then up a glade, backwards fand forwarids ?? 'all'in a brisk walk ...

... oxn>oxr i»; MOTES ON FASSZNa EVENTS. Those glorious days for churchwardens and overseen, when parish dinnen were plentiful as blackberries, when guardians of the poor could not relish their dessert unless they had previously washed their hands in kmc water, ...