... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... letter, Mr. Black, on the 21st of April, wrote the following reply :—Reasons, my dear Sir, as Fatstartsays. 'are plenty as blackberries; but I will give no man a reason on compulsion.' I refer you to Canon NO licence shall be granted but to such persons as ...

... upon it an immensity of ill. Green gooseberries, crude pippins, unripe plum3, hilts, and wall-fruit hips, haws, sloes, blackberries lollipops, barley- sugar, haid-bake, elecampane, Spanish licorice; cold turnip, raw carrot, jam, treacle, and pastry,—are ...

... took to ornament the front of his house and the dining- room splendid floweis, many of them exotics, were as plenty as blackberries, and presented a coup d'xil at once pleasing and grateful to the eye. Odd-fellows meddle not with politics, but one of ...