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... great improvement on those old barbarous street sights. White mice and guinea-pigs are still to be met with as plentiful as blackberries in the yellow month of October j and from the sound of hurdy-gurdies and the droning of bagpipes who has not prayed to ...
... dine or sup As some tiny girl presides, And the fancied feast divides— Calls this a custard, that a pie, The while with blackberries they dye Their little hands and ruby lips. Throw bviony and rosy hips In wild festoon’d-like arbours round, And paint them ...
... of two companies under Colonel Eyre, would join his Excellency immediately. Blackbb«rikB.—We have received a sample of blackberries and bloom, gathered at Hastings on the 18th inat., but much inferior to half-a-pim niacKbernes gathered in the same locality ...
... whilst the old man was chatting with Tim Bradley under the cool shade of the trees, she’d be off with the little ones, blackberry-hunting, or looking for wild flowers to take home with them. Ah ! there’d be no complaining then, she’d warrant. At last ...
... liked listening to the Stone better than fighting, and general desire the whitethorn and the blackberry came forward and negotiated terms of pence. The blackberry was very zealous, as she considered herself somewhat as relation to the strawberry, who had ...
... fire-place, and, while the yule-log blazed bright and cheerily, told Christmas stories, in which ghosts were as plentiful as blackberries. In one tale that was then told, the hero belonged to a family in which insanity was hereditary, and (as is commonly the ...
... May; gathered the blooms o’er the hedge-rows that hung, nocked the sweet song that the nightingale sung. au^umn Where the blackberries grew, ,'/)l 1 An(l tlle slly liazel-nuts hidden deep in the shade; Or with shouting and cheer, When the Christmas drew ...
... petticoat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and white ribbons. Her Majesty wore round her head a wreath composed of blackberries and diamonds. The diplomatic and general circle were both very fully attended, and the presentations were unusually numerous ...
... 11. Alice and her Bird. 3. Little F>ank. | 12. Little Charley. 4. The I.ittle Fortune Seekers. 13 A Doll’s Story. 5. 'The Blackberry (lathering. 14. The Faithful Dog. 6. The Fir Tree’s Story. | 16. Spring and Summer. The Child’s Search for Fairies. I The ...
... Sir E. Landseer, R.A. ; 68, Head of Mr. Macaulay, M.P.—an admirable portrait, painted on the Raeburn principle; 70, ” Blackberrying,” G. Smith; 73, •' The Silver Pool,” F. R Lee ; 85, A Villager’s OJering,” T. Webster, child offering a dish of mushrooms ...
... been begun, if the property was Oient to comtlete it. The drive through the lanes, enclosed by hedges of bweetbriar and blackberry, down to the water’s edge, over the river in a ferry-toat, and up the other side, to Dunkeld, impressed us more favoorably ...
... patriotic temper so wrong-headed and sturdy gladiator as Mr. Bright, we could adduce them till they became as “plentiful as blackberries.” But it needless. Mr. Bright is pleased to appear as if he did not know why his countrymen are fighting. But he not only ...