... the agent, his answer was much in the style of his illastrious prototype, Sir John Falstaff— If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion,” As the agent has condescended on petty pecuniary items, I mast be excused ...

... accosted a member of the tribe, who seemed to be an intelligent young man. L observed him stopping very frequently to gather blackberries on the wayside, aud then, as if to make up for the delay which had been occasioned by the gratification of his childish ...

... that rather sho fasted thirty-six hours than beg food or lodgin four additional hours on i consecutively, lived haws and blackberries, and sle pt three nights at the back of aditeh, ia the neighbourhood of tho town; e that when she did obtain employment ...

... remember a gorgeous border of blossomed whins, and a to ” somewhat interspersed with speci- mens of the rerl Irish vine, called blackberry > as around almost every arable ing in breadth, to the taste of the owner, from one yard to ten having from time imme- ...

... A BLOOMER BALL transatlantic stct (says the Times), as sors within the last month of tho blackberries in every part of doctrine as far as Edin- have even spread to the good sense of their hearers by on them morality infringed , and the expen- evils in ...

... I were so assailed, I sav, if reasons were as plenty as would treat ant as he deserved to be treated. (Hear, hear.) Ido blackberries, I would not yield; not expect that the tenants, can be as wise as their landlords ought to be; but they are men of good ...

... men able to make off three meals aday. Jn such cir- cumstances, candidates for the cross-belts are never ‘‘as plenty as blackberries,” fur it is an acknowledged fact, that few youths with money in their pockets ever fall “over head and ears” inte love ...

... its people as cleanly; though, in letters addressed to the Town Commissioners, signed «Mathew Bramble,” and “ Ebidneser Blackberry,” pub- of si e, | lished in the Banner some time ago, Loe licited the estab- for ite. er | no flattering picture of the ...

... last visit to he selected a spot where he wished to be laid Me had often sat oa the slopes of the East Hill, amidst the blackberry furse, and beath, looking on the out- stretched expanse of sea, the ruins of the ancient castle on the West the ravine below ...

... were over. The divisional generals, brigadiers, winter in that elevated feet above the lonels, and staff officers were as blackberries, od sea—must necessarily relieve them from the blockade. morning, after which they go to sleep, or pass the day the drinking ...

... for the chance of another market. | a state of things foreign samples were entirely lonels, and staff officers were as blackberries, and neglected, and holders preferred further waiting rather than he gh the only representative of the fair sex was Mrs ...

... Petty Sessions, held on last, a little boy named Trebern was mulcted in the sum of 7s, including expenses, for picking four blackberries from the of a neighbouring gardener; and two other youths had to pay 10s each for gathering nuts on lands in the occupation ...