... melons, &c.: but this is just the end of winter here, so that we saw no kind of fruit, except what was unripe, and a few blackberries, just like what we have in England. There are about 15J people on the island, includ- ing several blacks, a governor, parson ...

... whither we went from Stepney at eight years of age Blackberrying. We knew almost every dell, and cover, and tangled copse, and from any path could lead you direct to the richest garden of blackberries. We knew the haunts of Hornsey, and Finchley, and ...

... indifferent about his attentions! Little Dick Morley, the wheelwright's son, was always ready to help us catch the pony, or go blackberrying with us, and what did we want more ? Tom was boasting one day of how many times he had danced with the above- named lady ...

... rarity of true friendship, but this must be a gloomy libel on human nature, for sincere friends, if not as plentiful as blackberries, are at least as numerous as newspapers. We put it to the experience of all readers of the public journals—either daily ...

... table in character—not destitute of talent, adapted for real usefulness and permanent popularity, are now plentiful as blackberries. Under these circum- stances it is amusing to read the report of a meeting recently held in London, under the title of ...

... learned the superiority of cross over direct fire; eight o'clock came. The big wigs assembled, and soldiers were as thick as blackberries everywhere near the place of rendezvous. The Rajah rode up with his gallant band of excessively irregular-looking troops ...

... some excellent. casts of fruit and foliage from nature, prepared as art studies for schools. The list comprises apples, blackberries, hops, sunlowers, and lilies. The colour makers are well represented by a very at- tractive display, in which most of the ...

... from Marseilles, Lucca, and elsewhere, speaking of the infirm state of his health, and medical certificates as plenty as blackberries. A state- ment, signed by Messrs. Linldater, states that the bank- rupt was one of the directors of the London and Eastern ...

... anecdote of the Warrenton Rifle Corps. One day he told us that a countryman had come into camp with a quantity of blackberry pies. Blackberries in America are a much finer fruit than those ripened by our faint English sun, and are quite popular in their ...

... reaped a fair share. Theatrical booths were few in number, but nut, orange, and ginger- bread sellers were as plentiful as blackberries, and the new swindle of selling a penny purse full of money (?) for a shilling-a transaction in which none but the greatest ...

... was 26,621, with 8,520,303 tons. A large Scotch pearl was found the other day Inverury. It- was about the size of a large blackberry, .weighed twenty-three grains, and was ro'und and perfectly pure. It was sold for £34. Scotland, says a contemporary, is ...

... for tres- passing in a wood belonging to the Misses Starkey, of Hatton-hall, and taking therefrom, on the 4th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of the value of 6d., or there- abouts. The gamekeeper stated he had cautioned the de- fendant more than ...