... ransacking of the catacombs by Cocknies who go out to Egypt as they used to go to Margate, will render mummies plenty as blackberries, and dirt cheap.” So common indeed were they in Egypt during Champollion’s last visit (see Lettres Ecrites, 1833), that ...

... crowd, such a number of unskilful drivers, so many crazy machines, and cocktail” horsemen, accidents were plentiful as blackberries, but none of them of a nature to make any demand on our sympathies. Wrangles occurred at every turn of the road, and at ...

... his friends began to bestir themselves. Yesteis , day the coaches pressed into the service of Wood were pleawUl FalstafPs blackberries, and if the thing had been possible, each of his voters might, had he chosen, have had two to nde in ut once to the po ...

... Filberts, 4d. to Is,; and Pine Apnles, 6s. to 10s. per lb—Melons, 4s. to 10s. each; OldSwcet Oranges, 2s to 3s. per dozen; Blackberries, 2s. to 4s. per bushel basket; picked Elderberries, Is. fid, to 2s. per gallon. Supply, for the time year good, and trade ...

... Day’s br. g. by Saracen, aged, (Capt. Berkeley).. Mr. Haytborn’s b. g. Sailor, by Y. Grimaldi, aged 2 Mr. Dutton’s br. Blackberry, by Arbutus, aged 3 Mr. Cockerell’s br. g. Parchment, aged 4 A Handicap of 10 aovs. each. One mile and half. Five Subscribers ...

... as, long after the conclusion of the vintage, refuse grapes may always be found hanging. This food, so superior to our blackberries, hips and haws, may well cause the flavour of the bird ito be in the highest perfection; for the fruit is so nutritious ...

... and the contest is expected to be terrific. Conservative dinners, which but a few weeks since were as plentiful as the blackberries of Fahtaff, are now become exceedingly rare, so that when one does come in our way we are enabled to give more of our attention ...

... hips. Tanning.— A Mr. Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out a patent for tanning from the roots, stems, and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring; and after reparation, he states, quite equal to oak .bark. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Ml glad .Ifr ...

... witness named Brown, that they went out for a walk on Sunday week to Sbooter’s-hill, and while there gathered a quantity of blackberries, of which the deceased partook, and which caused stoppage, and who died on the following Friday. The excitement was occasioned ...

... all probability they would be quite transported. Would your correspondent like another example ? They are as plentiful as blackberries. A gentleman arrives at a gate, offers a half-crown piece in payment of the toll, waites for his change, when is astonished ...

... beavers. Added to the intense heats of summer, musquitoes, land-flies, midges, and yellow nippers,” are far commoner than blackberries. In autumn, remittent and intermittent fevers and dysenteries are the necessary concomitants of country covered with wood ...

... that you wished to look at them now and then, and think of me who am to be your husband.’ I have now got five bottles of blackberries and sloes for you, n>.y dear Cil.; they tell me they will be excellent by Christmas time, I hope so for your sake. I have ...