... 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 ...

... GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, MISTAKING BELLADONNA FOR BLACKBERRIES, -Last, week some children belonging to the town tf Sevenoaks, Kent, went out blackberry gather. ing, and one of them, a lad about ten years of age, was induced to eat some berries which I e ...

... with trowsers Patched, and jacket made from one His sire had worn. At early dawn Lagging behind to pluck the flowers, and Blackberries pick, till, roused at Length, by threat, or oath, he ambles On, and all the day works in the pit Amid rude scenes, and ...

... sprinkling, something like a shower; but Oh, ye gods.,bappy and gleesome, witty and wicked, they were as plentiful as blackberries, and packed as closely as Egyptian mummies; so much so that we wonder how they expanded their lungs. The playing of the ...

... 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 ...

... grossest articles —even on iron. In NewYoik the number of men who acorn to labour in Pennsylvania make stores as plentiful as blackberries. Almost the only coal company of hundreds in the district, which pays their men in cash, is in Car- bondale; they have ...

... change from tha: position to a desponding one in the station house, of course, naturally and quickly followed. GOING A BLACKBERRYING. —We have had several pleasi ig instances supplied of late, of the kind treatment shewn to the chi dren of the work- house ...

... them, whether as town councillors, aldermen, magistrates, or mayors. The can- didates certainly are not like Shakspeare's blackberries; the annual or biennial iippcal for some, the constant badgering for others, render the task disagreeable, and so we get ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...