... the purpose of rearing pigs! Should the root come to a prosperous maturity, potatoes, in good sooth, will be plenty as blackberries about the middle of July ! ...

... their wild spells on thee ? Teignmoulh is lovely ; o’er the inland hills Are lany walks, midst whose exuberant hedges Ripe blackberries now hang out their luscious pie g Of Nature’s bounty. There the schoolboy nils His cap with wholesome fruit; and there ...

... same course. McClelland*# Tipperary Boy * I Mr Rice's m I.irrr Mr M Gildow-nv’* Blackberry . . . - w 1 Four others slarteil, but were distanced in the tirst heat. Blackberry, verywell ridden, after a sharp contest with Lizzy, won the first heat. The second ...

... in this go-a-head age of literature, when maga- zines spring up in hundreds and poetic effusions areas plentiful as blackberries, we make no apology for introducing it to the notice of our readers : — To cheat, or not to cheat, that is the question ...

... make our word)—tho miracles of art and invention and discovery have become so very plentiful, even to exceed Falstaff's blackberry crop of reasons, that we no longer feel or express any astonishment at the impossibilities and improbabilities yesterday ...

... , his mother’s own boy, the hope of the family”—going on an excursion to country fair, where he sells the family horse, Blackberry, to one swindler, and is presently taken in by another, who pawns upon him, for the price of the animal, the four gross ...

... out for the former run ; the follow ing horses started McClelland’* Tipperary Boy Magee I Mr Rice's . M. ixiry - * * Mr M. Blackberry . Mr Iju«s of twjwrle, Mr Thompson • Saul, Mr Connor The Duke, amt Mr Smith's hor*c al-so startel. .. , . „ The were ...

... huddled together, Nature herself drooping, as in sorrow, give sort of pathos to this picture we have rarely seen before. His Blackberry Gatherers” is inferior to the one just named, hut it also is a striking specimen of hit energetic pencil. Compare its truth ...

... worth and greatness. But there is a fear lest the thing should be overdone ; lest if monuments become as plentiful as blackberries they should be as little thought of. It is neither necessary nor expedient that every town should build a monument or ...

... climbed on her hands and knees to the top of Ben-na-Bourd, actually outstripping Prince Albert, and gathering the garland of blackberries and heather-bells, wrought by the shepherd lasses, and presented by the courtiers to the winner. The high glee and robust ...

... loss previous incapacity. As a question of Government patronage, surely there are governorships and commands as plenty as blackberries for tiie employment of our engineer corps—one that is highly suited for the service; but why, in all fairness, should not ...

... obscurity, unpitied and uncared for. The Hero of a Hundred Fights, it is true, has lived to see statues around him plentiful as blackberries, but this is the exception to the rule. For how many years did Old Time roll on before justice was done to the immortal ...