... morning mist and evening haze, unlike the cold, grey rime, Seem'd woven waves of golden air, when I was in my prime, And blackberries, so mawkish now, were finely flavoured then, And huzel nats, such clusters thick I ne'er shall plack again. Nor strawb'ries ...

... as to place it out of the reach of nine out of ten of our ‘modern Trumpery similes, however, were as plenty and cheap as blackberries. Bavius showed me a packet con- taining a thousand, the price marked on which was only a quarter Mab; and | heard Pippin ...

... tiser, of the 12th Dec., tells the following thrilling tale: —“ Last fall, a woman residing in the vicinity of was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, a bright-eyed little fellow of less than a year old.. The babe ...

... the trees; of playing at hide-and-seek, She also loved to wander away gathering of raspberries, or wild strawberries, or blackberries, or hips and liaws in their season. So it ehaneed one day while she was away a dog came by and scattered her flock; or ...

... at this season, a peared fuller of promise. As indicative of an early harvest the oats are already fn the ear, and the blackberry bushes in fall blossom—the latter being popularly regarded as a most cheering omen. New potatoes are now daily in our vegetable ...

... sup plied him with small sums at long interest, 2% i 3 while his figure was good, and where rich wives were as plenty as blackberries. “ A season or twoin London, A when you come. the world's wonder ofa fine fellow, and with money in bot 'd arich merchant's ...

... besides, his police and spies are not every one of them on the other side of the channel—he has them here too, plenty as blackberries. They failed not to inform him what reception the British people were likely to give him. Then what does he meditate? Why ...

... pointed, and saw on the grass a number of fiat, oval stones, set out in regular tea-table order. On these stones were piled black-berries, whortleberries,ground nuts, fresh hazel-nuts, and some pieces of dry bread. Little bouquets of the rich prairie flowers ...

... a cabbage bed—throngh the cabbage bed into a potato. field— across the potato-field fall headway into hedge through: he blackberry bushes until at last I clasped it lodged between I bore a proud trophy. The owner stool near to the spot where I had left ...

... ‘and year trees, laden with fruit, festoons of wild vines bending under the weight of their grapes, shrubs of barberry, blackberry, ‘and dog-rose; in sho rything seems to be assembled here to homage to the king of the forest, the lofty pine, which rises ...