... her, and played with her tennis, cricket, football; toboganning in a wheelless barrow down a grassy slope in the garden; blackberrying and nutting in the woods, on the commons; skating, billiards, archery. Mary wanted to do everything that anybody else in ...

... pasture to a given number men. In parts of East Yorkshire, as in the more thickly populated dales, little farms are as thick blackberries, and certain amount prosperity even where rents are high attaches to each. In the New Forest there are little patches of ...

... went along the c liffs until they had reached the back of the prison gardens, where Groom left his companions to gather blackberries. He had scarcely his back when he heard a groar, and on returning, found Wise looking over the cliff and laughing at the ...

... fastened down by buttercups, caruations, or | these were a little farther from us than were the | such fruit as cherries or blackberries. The jet- | | baffaloes, embroidered tulle bonnets remain in can These lions were of the largest species be worn with almost ...

... that day nor the one following, but no attention bad been paid that fact. On the third day some children, who were picking blackberries near the village, were attracted the unusual movements of a dog which accompanied them, to a spot where he was pawing up ...

... dodder, a parasite that often accompanies foreign seed. Earliness continues to be the characteristic of the season. Ripe blackberries were gathered from the hedgerow brambles a week ago, the stony haws have acquired their full autumnal colour, and catkins ...

... gallaEt break lance behalf of ladies ? •li'iatribes against the circumambient appearance ■of the fair ones are as thick,as blackberries—and .yet they bear the infliction meekly. If young ger.tleiir.cn are really noxious to arrest the use of crinoline, jwe ...

... how early the little lads ceased to eat the bread of idleness. The smaUert of them would be sent to gather mushrooms and blackberries. They were soon fitted out with dinner satchel and pair of claooers, and sent to scare the birds from the newly-80wnP|clds ...

... a multitude of people we heard of who have turned the corner of ninety years! And the children are as thick as bees or blackberries. Dr Ingram, in whose pulpit I preached, in whore house we lived some three or four da in his 96th has the fresh year, He ...

... compensation. So much has been written oa the past glories of Gretna—those palmy days wheii the crop of heiresses seemed thick blackberries, and guineas flew about for priest, witnesses, innkeeper, postboys, and well-wishers, like snow-flakes on an April day—that ...

... standard ; dwarf, cherry trees, 1600 plums,six acres of quinces, 20 acres strawberries, aores of raspberries, eight acres of blackberries, 18 acres grapes. —Boston Advertiser, The authorities have decided that the accnmnlation of profits of canteens shall in ...

... that similarly “ great men” are now-a-days as was constantly engaged in social and municipal who explicitly declare as blackberries in every nation of the Prussia should take the fi eld, the Danes would | plentiful work, such as presiding at public assemblies ...