... else how comes it that these ninety thousand children go to no school, although schools are as plentiful in the land as blackberries? The compulsory clause is one of the good points in the Lord Advocate’s Bill, and with all deference to those who protest ...

... clinging to beds to catch the their stakes and stretchi ng their long aims out of their grateful drops aud the currants and blackberries were so thick that th to be prematurely jammed. Everything grows in Me ey seemed in a fair way Kidd's garden but weeds ...

... fitting form could have been found than that of a public dinner. Testimonials of all conceivable kinds are as com- | mon as blackberries in June ; and, though it is | pleasant no doubt to carry away with you the good wishes of your friends in some tangible ...

... sorry it cannot be—but rose cannot be turned into bud.’ Irishman was once ask si? had ever seen red blackberry. *To he sure I’ hare,’ said Pat; all blackberries are red when they’re graen.’ An Inquisitive priest having asked young lady her name in the confessional ...

... to the burgh, however. When demanded an extra force was put on for country service, especially in the berry-time, when blackberries were a tempta- tion and sermons an abomination to the wild boys of the burgh. The country beat of the spiritual tectives ...

... Forfarshire, which Mantell Us obtained evidence to prove belong to batrachian. Those in clusters, and popularly known as blackberries, he believes to be the spawn of animals, of the fiog tribe; while other and larger ova, which occur singly or in pairs ...

... ; the Luxurious, clov er ; the Greedy, cellery ; the Foolish gooseberries ; the Irritable, rasps ; the Roughs, stocks ; blackberries ; the Mournful, onions and rue ; the Speculator, the r ‘areful, honesty ; the Miser. marigold ; the Young ‘Lady, sweet ...

... Fbuit Juices.— Take quantity of any kind of fresh berry fruit (red currant, black currant, cherry, gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry, cranberry, Ac.; also plums and rhubarb.) Clean the fruit, and put it into enamelled goblet or jelly pan. (Rhubarb should ...

... ladies is * beau-he.’ in favour among unmar- NONSENSE.—To think of curing a disposition for telling white lies by eating | blackberries, There is a benevolent citi zen who boil is the pudding- cloth every Christmas and gives the bro: h to the poor. * Tears ...

... bouses with sheet-lead. Perhaps It was the same man who saw white blackbird sitting on a wooden mile-stone, eating a red blackberry. AN observant but not very rich old lady always bought her tea the quarter a pound, because she thus got what she termed ...

... gonse- berries from Stirkoke and Stemster, as big as small fine red and white currants from Stirkoke ; and fine samples of blackberries from Stirkoke , with a few cherries of enormous size from the former place, nearly com the inventory of the common fruits ...

... closed the Shakspeare tercentenary Al S| so far as London is It seems we are goi tg to have centenarics as plen- tiful as blackberries now. It appears rather odd, » | and perhaps just a Jeetle uncomplimentary, to cele- 0 | brate the tercentenary of Calvin’s ...