... about two o'clock in the afternoon of the above-named day, and took his way, it is supposed, towards the river In search of blackberries. His parents, missing his presence at tea, went round the village in search of him, but failed to see or to hear any account ...

... fire-place, and, while the yule-log blazed bright and cheerily, told Christmas stories, in which ghosts were as plentiful as blackberries. III one tale that was then told, the hpro belonged to a family in which insanity was hereditary (and as is commonly the ...

... gin- palace like a bad shilling? I can't tell, my son. Because you can't pass it, said the boy. Life is a tield of blackberry bushes mean people squat down and pick up the fruit, DO matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud and pe ...

... published in a periodical, and then forgotten with all convenient speed and with regard to essays, which are numerous as blackberries, the best of the small ones may shine for a month in a local publication, while the large ones are seldom published at ...

... rings, no bed, of water-cress, No woods to play the truant in when pedagogues oppress, hedges and no gutters where the blackberries may hide, And wild rose-trees luxuriant trail in all their summer pride; N?, none of these !—I therefore feel to wish my ...

... we find such passages as Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, scattered over his lu- cubrations as plentifully as blackberries. But what love can this writer have, either for his God or his neighbour, when he proves himself utterly devoid of charity ...

... OYER. Last Thursday, a little boy, eleven years of age, named William Baker, while crossing the road after getting some blackberries from a hedge, near the barracks, was knocked down by a farmer who was driving a cart, and received a severe concussion ...

... returned heme from his work on the morning of Thursday last, told his wife that he wou d go out to the fields to gather some blackberries, for the purpose of making a tart but his not returning that day nor ntglit, raised the suspicions of his wife and friends ...

... pathetic ballad over which we then wept as we thought of the children in the wood. Their little bands and pretty lips With blackberries were dyed, And when they saw the darksome night They sate them down and cried. And, as if to remind us the more forcibly ...

... pears were 3d. to 4d. a dozen. Damsons, of which there wa. not a great supply, sold at 8d. per quatt, and there were some blackberries at 3d. per quait. We noticed some very fine cucumbers these were priced at 4d. each. Of fish, there was not a great supply ...

... his bank book. opening it he displayed page after page, where two shillings and six- pence entries were as numerous as blackberries in autumn, turning over a few pages he said 2s. 6d. a week for the 1st year is £ 6 10d., and this 2s. 6d. per week for ...

... dark ages than to the 19th century; and he is evidently not aware that copies of the Fathers are nearly as plentiful as blackberries, and may be had, at prices vary- ing from four to ten shillings a volume, any day of the week. Foreign editions of them ...