... same dog-fox Ulysses is not proved worth a blackberry. Once more the blackberry is not without its folk-lore, and there is a popular superstition that the Devil always puts his cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmas Day, and on this account it ...

... romances to delight them and pass away the happy hours ? This is the blackberry season. Among the rich and russet autumnal tints stands out prominently the foliage of the blackberry so often used by gardeners in table decoration, but the delight of the ...

... trade might be driven in these wild berries, bringing in money anO pleasure to village folk, for ev ry child loves blackberry jam, and blackberry pudding is food lor the gods when eaten with thick yellow cream. Here is a clear case of wastefulness. Butter ...

... the growers, whq have no har~estingy expenses, or storage-room rent, or any indefinite period to wait for their money. BLACKBERRIES This wild fruit is so plentiful this year by hedgerow and copse and on moor and common, that correspondents are asking ...

... warm weather at the end of August and first fortnight of September. The drawback of blackberry bushes is their attracting trespassers. It may be added that the blackberry responds to cultivation, and we believe that with a little botanical caie the size ...

... has not the gift of getting confidences out of other people, nor are interesting specimens such as this one as common as blackberries in September. But the book is so shrewd and alive, it gives so admirably the outlook of the Hooligan, and shows you how ...

... mature age was made ?? a new material, blackberry brocade. The foundation %xa.s of rich and lustrous black satin, with a tracery of white network suggestive of a spider's web, on which were raised blackberries and leaves. The gown was trimmed with rare ...

... was held oh Wednesday and following days. Over 200 dogs competed in the various stakes, and hares were as Iplentiful as blackberries. -Notwithstanding unfavourable weather a very successful meeting was held in the earlier part of the wveek at Burton-on- ...

... flashing eyes, and, holding out both her pahns before her, said, The child's mouth be that purple or blue-it's fits. It's blackberries, answered the seaman. ''They was nice and ripe, and plenty of them. 'Blaclkberries almost shrieked the hostess, ...

... elk and killed him ; here I enjoyed glorious salmon-trout fishing, and thoroughly patronised the famous muilterberries, blackberries, and wild strawberries, but these were all over, and evening chills he- raided the coming winter. I was talking to Ole-the ...

... days there were poachers on the Tweed. So there are now ; and so like- wise it may be said sheepstealers were plentiful as blackberries. They are more uncommon now. Yet with all our foreign imports, in addition to our own rearing, neither mutton nor beef ...

... number ot eminent lawyers who have been distinguished in literature is not great. Bacons have not been exactly as common as blackberries, and the list of Chancellors, Chief Justices, or learned jurists in general, who have made their mark in letters, does ...