... morning mist and evening haze, Unlike the cold, grey rime. Seemed woven waves of golden air, When I was in my prime. And blackberries, so mawkish now, Were finely flavoured then ANd hazel nuts such clusters thick I ne'er shall pluck again; T. Nor strawb'ries ...

... more costly, the excellent i taste and good feeling of this gentleman has introduced some catlings of the common English blackberry. Many of onr readers will remember the anecdote of an English gentleman who when strolling through the gardens of princely ...

... Jones's prophecy, that the days of the Abergavenny Eisteddlod are numbered—I think not. False prophets are numerous as blackberries. Whether the Bard will be an unit in addition to these, time alone can reveal. I sincerely hope, for the next Eisteddfod ...

... Best making ave raged from .f 3. to £3. is. ; seconds, f 2. Os. to I'2, At this fair, pickpockets were as plentiful as blackberries. One of the gang was detected robbing a woman of her purse, and was consigned to durance vile. Mr. Gwyn, of Mitchel Troy ...

... saffron butterfly appears. Hips and haws now ornament the hedges. The berries of the briony and the privet, the barberry, the blackberry, the holly, and the elder, from which is made the famous winter wine of old Eng- land's peasantry, with sloes, bullaces ...

... of a Poor man's family, have contributed to establish the beer shops and Dowlais, which in these places are plentiful as blackberries. Knowing the many evils arising from the old practice of payment, Sir John Guest has made arrangements for the substitution ...

... another world. The deciding party is not to be dragooned into either of these alternatives. Ifreasons were as plenty as blackberries, this prolific year for such food, he could not give one: and, moreover, h(J probably thinks, that as trigger-pulling is ...

... happiest auspices. Thus, to use an old saying, it never rains but it pours railways threaten to become as plentiful as blackberries. For our parts, we wish each and all of them success: we cannot have too much of a good thing. The old steam-packets between ...

... grounds for a proceeding thus senseless and absurd, he would give no reason upon compulsion though reasons were as thick ns blackberries;” would rather cover the nakedness and poverty of his imagination under shied lorn from Sir Robert Peel’s ample robe. Mr ...

... WALK FROM NEWPORT TO CARDIFF. [Continued from our last.) About five miles from Cardiff the hawthorns, wild rose bushes, and blackberry brambles, were strewed with ears of pilfered from the heavy-laden harvest wains. The heart ...

... at the Queen’s Head Inn, when it appeared that boy named Alfred Hemming saw the box on Sunday morning, as was gathering blackberries. The hoy called to his assistance a weaver named George Harris, who was walking near, and on the hitter dragging the box ...

... set it down at 14,000. What those good reasons are, lie does not venture to inform us. If reasons were plentiful as blackberries, I will give you DO reason on compulsion, exclaims the bullyswaggerer Falstaff, and so we are left in a happy state of ...