... justice. The office was worth, in ordinary limes,about £l,OOO a year, and extraordinary, when crown prosecutions cropped like blackberries, the days of Wbiteboyism and Itockism, double or treble that amount. If divided per counties the office will vary In amount ...

... bygone years, before the goldfields were overrun by the rush of immigrants, and when golden holes were as plentiful as blackberries, a party of two or three men worked out a good claim which had yielded, say £5OO a mao, would for ward their gold to the ...

... commenced on Tuesday, the 27tb August. Ten oared caike, and caiks of one, two, and three-pair of senlSs, were as p’entifol as blackberries polled by John Turk in bis best Bairutn costome. And these were mingled with gaudily-painted Maltese boats, Austrian and ...

... Scott—The Mayor is not here. Mr. Julian—But could not the Secretary write about it to him, Mr. Gregg—Logs are not worth a blackberry. Mr. J chan considered the subject a serious one. The poor child he referred to went out of her home in healtli and strength ...

... would certainly think themselves hardly used if in tliis era of libertv, when locomotion is cheap and girls are plenty as blackberries, they should not be allowed to pick their spouses, at least, among hundred fair ones. It is only the pinnacle of the pyramid ...

... your adversary, and if sticks and stones are proscribed, the national fist is to the fore, and rusty guns are plenty as blackberries, despite coercion acts. We might undertake to promise Mr. Ilarhisou as pretty a fight as he could wish to denounce, at ...

... Foreign ; all kinds of Jams and Jellies at 10s. per Duz. ; Pine Apple, Peach, Apricot, Plum, Greengage, Damson, Quince, Blackberry, Raspberry, Strawberry, Gooseberry, Black Currant, Red Currant, Apple Jams and Jellies. Marmalade, Ss. per Doz.; New Pickles ...

... beloved country. “He had to contend against a great deal in his district, for the infamous Copperheads were as thick as blackberries, and he often felt as if he would like thrashing a man to he a Christian virtue, that might hare the privilege of into ...

... men, with the exception those on guard, seek the grateful shade of the woods. Some may be found mile from camp, picking blackberries, others visiting the few miserable farmhouses in the vicinity in search ‘■•f good water or fresh milk—for the latter they ...

... earth ; and within a stonethrow arc Hussars, soldiers, constabulary mounted and foot, crowds of police, magistrates plenty blackberries, simps shut, crowds nmplng hither and thither, the crack of musket or pistol ‘pwvrberating, ladies flying in terror ; and ...

... pie, in innumerable equilateral triangles, gleaming with ghastly sheen beneath the yellow gauze. There it is; pumpkin pie, blackberry pie, whortleberry pie, huckleberry pie—pie of ail kinds, but always of the same grinning, splay shape, and witli a foundation ...

... of these failing me, I can always find frogs, mice, or beetles quite sufficient to keep me in good health and condition. Blackberries afford me regular treat at this time of year, and in winter I can easily get innumerable small birds when they roost near ...