... The age of chivalry gone,” Never was knight-errantry more in vogue than the present moment. have knights plentiful as blackberries ; and truly errant knights they seem to be. On Monday last a goodly dozen of doughty champions took the field, and in what ...

... gives of the pio-nic. The sweets in it are very sweet, and the fun very funny : the dears and the darlings are as plenty blackberries in June, and the love is all very loveable indeed. We are afraid the sly rogue who composed the epistle was all the while ...

... eveiy house. Fools grow without watering,” the proverb saya It it commouly assumed, indeed, that fools are as plentiful blackberries; but be must be fool who thinks so; for the term “ fool” has become the synonym for an honest man. The fact is that fools ...

... part of Mr Rodger. He had placed himself in the shoes of the celebrated Falstaff when hg declared that were raisins plenty blackberries I would not give one of them compulsion.” He begged to move : That the trust estate commonly called the Scott Bequest has ...

... as public sources of amusement go we have seldom seen so many announcements—soirees and tea meetings are as plentiful as blackberries, and there will no doubt be many other large gatherings for which no handbill is required. For the many who, according ...

... tic element in comparison with the Bank of Deposit. immense amount of delay, which is only Live lords were plentiful as blackberries—had not partially felt at present, but which if we entered the bubble burst Peter Morrison would doubtless upon naval war ...

... of course the distinguished visitors (to quote favourite phrase of your London contemporaries) will be as plentiful as blackberries. The prices of admission are on a scale sufficiently liberal to ensure the attendance of a very large number of visitors ...

... something new and tremendous to cause it to hold its breath for a moment. Murders, suicides, and hangings are as plenty as blackberries; breaches of promise and divorce cases have lost their gusto; sensation dramas are voted slow, burlesques miserable; and ...

... i* imbibed so freely that people in various stages of happiness” are, from Saturday night till Monday, as plentiful as blackberries. As natural consequence the police work hard for their weekly wages, and some half dozen of them in the course of the seven ...

... only to take their names, and to punish them if they trespassed. It was a common thing for children to go gathering of blackberries and other wild fruit, and they ought not to be struck and ill-used in this way, but advised, when doing wrong, to keep ...

... the damson have yet been wet with, but stones the wild plum ana the Prunus padus have been found. Seeds the raspberry and blackberry, and sheila of the bazol-uut and beech-nut occur plentifully in the mud From all this, therefore, it is evident that the ...

... meditated. Aftrr gettiug John Davies to make an engagement t. me iu the aft’ moon to Duffryn Wood, for the purpose of picking blackberries, at one o’clo k I went to borrow the hatchet. 1 carri d it to the blacksmith's shop asd hid it outside under a bush, where ...