... that if our life had been as short as theirs, they would have totally defeated us in the competition for nuts and ripe blackberries. 1 can hardly agree to this extravagant statement; but I think, in a life of twenty years, the efforts of the human mind ...

... set the rick o» fire, and alleging as reason that hunger had driven him so, as he had for a long time subsisted only on blackberries ana turnips. He will be brought before the magistrates to-morrow. Jangle among the Bellmen.—A curious scene occurred at ...

... received Melbourne yesterday afternoon [From the Melbourne Daily News, Oct. 2, 1851.] . GOLD. . . • end » • Pbmt'ful as blackberries; there is, positively, no lt it would amuse you to see fellows with bottles and * ' gfeatly does it abound that there is ...

... stiffly against these time-honoured abominations. The pressure has been felt in high quarters, and instances are plentiful as blackberries of the tendencies towards reform which are being forced from without upon people in power. The verdict of the nation is ...

... but, though it is the first thing of the kind that has ta». place Worcester, these performances are becoming as plentu as blackberries. 9 TATTE RSALL'S.—Monday. Leamington Stakes.—s to 1 agst. Lady Evelyn (t); W agst. Cleveland ; 10 to 1 agst. Hugo ; 12 ...

... Robinson, a travelling draper, of Doncaster, has been found iv a ditch near Sheffield, two children who were gathering blackberries. It bore themaiksof severe injuries, and near the place a pool of blood was discovered, and marks upon the grass as though ...

... against them for damaging a number of trees, the property of Lord Ward. It appeared they broke the trees while gathering blackberries. On refusing to pay the costs, to be fined Is. and costs, or 14 days. Trespass.— Leonard Wells, a respectably-dressed youth ...

... for the coming year ; and all is bustle and activity around us. Nor are the hedge-rows devoid of interest. The luxuriant blackberry is now seen in boundless profusion ; and many are the lads and lasses who go forth to gather them. The blue sloe, too, is ...

... The offence took place on Friday last at Harber Hill. Several girls, varying from seven to ten years old, were gathering blackberries, prisoner met them, and after talking with them for some time, proceeded to the offence complained of, until taken into ...

... jumping out of their carriage and making themselves as small as possible. Ascents of Mont Blanc are getting almost as common blackberries. The Rev. Christ. Smyth, one of the curates of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, has lately ascended to the highest point of Monte ...

... : The morning mist and evening haze, Unlike the cold, grey rime, Seem'd woven waves golden air When I was my prime. And blackberries, so mawkish now, Were finely flavour'd then. And hazel nuts such clusters thick ne'er shall pluck again. Nor strawb'rtes ...

... —Several articles of silver plate were on Tuesday week discovered a hedge Lassington, Gloucestershire, by some women who were blackberrying. The plate turns out to be part of the proceeds of burglary committed six years ago at the house Dr. Marsden, Great Malvern ...