... months, with felons of every degree. After this we may expect to hear of the conviction of every child detected gathering blackberries from the hedges, or bilberries from the commons. We confess, that we cannot exactly discover why a penalty $0 severe as ...

... There were no external marks of violence ; she died from general fatigue and exhaustion; her stomach contained nothing but blackberries.—Egan, the father, on being recalled, said his child left home in perfect health.—The prisoner, (a dull, heavy-looking ...

... the juice of buckthorn berries frhamnus catharticusf, made from the fruit of the blackberry-bearing alder, and the dogberry tree. A mixture of tbe buckthorn and the blackberry-bearing alder, and of tbe dogberry tree, may be seen publicly exposed for sale ...

... bankers retaliated only with their fists, the assailants brandished their blun{g(‘ons. broken heads became as ¢ plentiful as blackberries,” and knock-down blows were as freely given as at Donnybrook fair,—when the Englishmen having got the worst of it, retired ...

... vales and woods of Somersetshire ; where Falstatf” doubtless originated his happy thought of * reasons being as plenty as blackberries ; —for never did I behold such lavish ) protusion of fruit, as that of our hedgerows and cojse woods this summer. ‘T'he ...

... surely, notwithstanding all this, they will not answer you in the language of Falstaff : ‘an’ reasons were as plenty as blackberries, 1 would not give you a reason upon compulsien.” But the bill, T say, this bill, must have a head to it : it must have ...

... inst. the first stone of the Mausoleum about to be erected in memory of the late lamented Duchess of Rutland was laid on Blackberry Hill, his Royal Highness the Duke of York.— The site of the intended edifice, although but a short distance from the castle ...

... property as extensive, as those of our noble neighbours. Time presses in the present week, or we would give reasons plenty as blackberries’ for our difference in opinion : another week we may return to the subject, and perhaps give such an nna{yution of two ...

... subside, from the unl’l | state of the condition of the feet of their cattle. It is asserted that the juice of the blackberries, whlfhl are ripe at this season, has in several instances cured the dropsy. The method of taking the juice 1 about a quarier ...

... '—* And so you thought to get a nobleman for two shillings ?* said Mr. Harmer.—* “‘fy if noblemen were as plentiful as blackberries, you coull hardly hope to buy lgem at two shillings nmgiece.'—()h! but I gave her a great deal more, sir,’ replied the ...

... lavender,, distributed about a bed, will drive away bugs or fleas. As the season is fast advancing for the ripening of blackberries, a Correspondent, who lately recommended the use of them in cases of dropsy, stone, and gravel, wishes to call the attention ...

... occur: we understand three officers will be allowed to volunteer with every sixty men. It is asserted that the juice of the black-berries, which are ripe at this season, has in several instances cured the dropsy. The method taking the juice is about a quarter ...