... was sent to fetch the bulletin which I would have kept me from a nice party, that was to go out for the ! gathering of blackberries, I complained, with tears in my eyes, to my i brother Daniel, about this de'il of an auld wife that would neither die 1 ...

... orchards all the way. Put forth their golden pride; Even hedges, husk’d bravery, Look'd lich that sunny morn ; starlet hip and blackberry prank'd September's thorn. In Cora’s glen the calm how deep ' That trees loftiest hill Like statues stood, or things asleep ...

... the tricked uncle trustee for the Lobes im the rood.* 1 Just But I preferred an appeal to the Lords Treasury to eating blackberries, and take my leave, for the present, of Sir James Weir Hogg aud Mr Baillie.—l remain, Sir, &c., C. J. Napier, Lieut-General ...

... unfortunate (the Duke thinks me fortunate) in finding rieviDoolll• — flal, sere, nuredressed grievances— as plantiful as blackberries, I apprehend that the Sutherland Metternksh, Mr Loch, must be to blame, not the writer 41 this letter.—l am, Sir, your ...

... hundred yards west of the village. Sites have now been granted by the Duke in every parish in Sutherland. Some very fine blackberries, of a large size and rich flavour, were lately gathered in the garden of Mr Roderick Urquhart, Dingwall. Caution.—A quantity ...

... killed more than fifty dogs. Mabbiaoe Extbaobdinabt—Married, at Sudbury, Massachusaetto, the Rev. Mr Cranberry, Mr Nehemiah Blackberry Miss Catherine Elderhory, of Danberty. hope their de’ acendants will not gooseberries.—JV ...

... singing is t his description. His auditors attend each '■onccrt, and every time applaud more heartily The are plentiful blackberries, than before . VO{ . as enthusiastic ami as ! ...

... down on the open streets, while actions of damages for libel, and cross actions for assault and battery, were plentiful as blackberries. When the unhappy contest began, the Town Council was a wealthy corporation, but far more than .£20,000 was spent in the ...

... lies buried beneath their deceptive beauty. The hips of the wild rose rest their rich scarlet upon the carved ebony of the blackberry; while the deep blue of the sloe throws over all the rich bloomy velvet of its fruit, as it stands crowned with its ruddy ...

... Fsoloru ory, Mareh. April. and Part of May. peal then come in plenty, arid continue till the harem' fish (cello,' by the pow Blackberry ash. but which are early breeding fish), supply their The spent salmon returning, the spring fiah peel' went ep the former ...

... is now at tlie back thy leg, will be driven the front, and the blood will shoot out of thy feet, as when thou aqueezest blackberries in a bag. ' Again, if thou wilt not yet confess —holla ! shouted he. and kicked open a door behind him, so that the whole ...

... tufts as high as a minaret. Wherever I looked, the vegetable world was all novelty in its beauty and grandeur. Save the blackberry, the ivy, and a sort of wild lint-bell, I recognised not one old friend among the ' field-flowers.' The fig-tree— the nopal—the ...