... sthranger first. Turnabout here, then, ye long, thrimlin', gandber, ye, an' git a teste o* this; come, jump, like a cock at a black-berry f and the speaker, with tbe blazing spit in one hand, caught poor Jamie with the other, and dragged him to the centre of ...

... till the principal races were over. The divisional generals, brigadiers, colonels, and staff officers, were plentiful as blackberries ; and though the only representative of the fair sex was Mrs. Seacole, wlio presided over a sorely- invested tent full ...

... prisoner did not bury the silver pencil cases, but merely put them behind a tree, and no doubt the people who were picking blackberries found them. The prisoner stated that he had picked terns and made a bed ; and slept in Epping Forest for the last week ...

... garden, and bought the Fort field of Jerry Driscoll, that had nothing in it, but was full of thistles, and old stones, and blackberry bushes ; and all the neighbours — as well they might — thought h» was cracked ! The first night that Tim could summon conrage ...

... and £40,000 had been expended in such contests ; and they ell knew that elections e Wing £B,OOO to £lO,OOO were plenty blackberries. (Laughter.) Now (Hr. Bell) had had the pleariog excitement of conteat, was returned and enjoved the luxury of a petition ...

... one. She became • wife and a mother, aad possibly is so ttUL— 2Vofci and Queries'. Touching Metaphor.— Life is a field of blackberry bushes. Mean people squat down and pick the fruit, no matter bow they black their fingers ; while genius, proud and per ...

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

... Sessions, held on Friday last, little boy named Trebern was mnlucted in the sum of 75., including expenses, for picking four blackberries from the hedge of neighbouring gardener; and two other boys had to pay 10s. each for gathering nuts on lands in the occupation ...

... the wild rose, the brilliant scarlet and green berries of the night-shade, and tbe dark purple bunches of the luxuriant blackberry. These are now most abundant,and we often meet lots of lads and lassies busy in reducing their numbers. Then we have the ...

... thinks of, and she'll make a splendid mull of it, I know. Ay, that she will. Invitations are as cheap and plentiful as blackberries ; everybody has one. The distin- guished thing now is, not to be going, but to be stopping away. Yet, for all that, I would ...