... The morning mist and evening haze— Unlike ibis cold grey rime Seem’d woven waves of golden air. When 1 was in prime. And blackberries —so mawkish now Were finely flavoured then ; And hazel nuts ! such ■clusters thick ne’er shall pnil again Nor strawberries ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... thousands. We hase cheap trips of all sorts, and those to London, Birmingham, Bristol, and Hull, are common and plenty as blackberries. Similar projects in the direction of Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece, will now become equally so, a jaunt to Paris ...

... SITTING HENS.—Farmers' wives of the old school say, that hens should never be allowed to sit during the season that the blackberry is in blossom. There is an old saw to the same effect which runs thus Between the sickle and the scythe, What you rear ...