... and comprised the. tag, rag, and bobtail, of such establish- ments. Nut and gingerbread stalls were as plentiful as blackberries hi autumn, and we sl.o ild think were far too numerous to make the thing profitab'e to all. However, John Bull, especially ...

... seem an instrument conve- nient enough when inserted into a saucer or sirup, or ?? to the broken surface of an over-ripe blackberry, but we often see our sipper of sweets quite as busy on a solid lump of sugar, which we shall find, on close in- spection ...

... 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 ...

... by the bine. In the country places, village children prepare for a day in the woods, or in the lanes, to gather nuts or blackberries. Ah ! what glorious days those were of our early nuttings! To wander through the old woods, along paths trod by deer; sometimes ...

... that he himself is in possession of sufficient data to qualify him, not to form an opinion — opinions are as plentiful as blackberries, and often worth about as much ; but to form and pro- nounce a right judgment, in respect to the whole parochial system ...

... was a young man highly respected large circle of acquaintances. 1 Accidekt. —On Monday last number of boys were gathering blackberries in Grimscsr Wood, on the road to El land, one of them accidentally fell into pit Ig deep and received some severe injuries ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... MURDER AT SHEFFIELD. On Frida;’ evening, two children, who were gathering blackberries in hedge-bottom at Eaatbank, about a mile and a half to the soutb-eaat of Sheffield, ducorered the dead bod} of man almost concealed among the bushes that had overgrown ...

... o'clock in the forenoon the Untie te». accompanied by his sister and another girl, had gone aca an adjoining field to gather blackberries, andunfor-..ui.,. / got too near to a horse, to which he spoke, when c up ?? him over the head, fracturing the skull and ...

... 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 ...

... postponement, but this expected, for parties disinclined to fulfil their own pledges, reasons can ways be had as plentifully blackberries. the frame of mind thnt sets itself invent such reasons that is to be deplored. Wc had fain hoped thnt Whig indolence and ...