... friend writes to me from her country home in Cumberland, telling of some dinner parries she has been giving, nnd saying that blackberry leaves and white wax berries (hy whicli 1 sap- pose she means tho milk - white fruit of tho American bush aymi ft mitt ...

... and rose to exhibit them sitting on a bank, worn out with their wanderings, the boy feeding his weary sister with a huge blackberry^ made out of countless shoe buttons, tied together in a bunch of suitable size. Bi-obdignag robins were watching the children ...

... Society. I suppose it would be as useless to expect the Cymrnrodor to appear at its proper time as it would be to look for blackberries im May, and, I presume, that the mem- bers of the Society have settled themselves down into a state of calm resignation ...

... her niece, who is taking tea with her)— Take some of these stewed blackberries, my dear. Blackberries are good for the complex- ion. Niece — But, dear aunty, I don't want a blackberry complexion. Good-night to-morrow— An Irish gentleman, who had been ...

... manifest in one way or another a fondness for dangerous pursuits. Bold and daring youngsters are plentiful in the land as blackberries were in summer when Falstaff larded the lean earth. The other day four boys were found in an open boat—probably a l ...

... of a miner, writing was with him an instinct ; he scribbled on odds and ends, and even used ink made from the juice of blackberries when he was young and poor. In 1564 he wrote the best poem on the tercentenary of Shakspeare, the prize thus obtained being ...

... son, 500 tons; blackberry, 100 tons; ai d they can be bought retail from any ready-morey grocer at the following prices :— Gooseberry, SJ. to s£d. per lb ; raspberry, 6d. t » 6_d.; strawberry 6d. to 6Jd.; black currant. s£d; blackberry, 5Jd; plum, 4d ...

... oiece of work, due to the skill and energy of our dost and another friendly academician. Then followed the sad feast of blackberries, for the lonely and weary babes, the fruit being in propor- tion to their size made of large bunches of shoe .rattens strung ...

... humblest of mankind. The promoters of the Show had no difficulty in gathering reasons from his plays more plentiful than blackberries in summer,' showing why Pity should place a solace in the hand of Charity. About a dozen scenes in all were illustrated ...

... Works. There are disused but protected mine shafts in the vicinityandtheboy is supposed to have been attempting to gather blackberries, and so lost his balance, and fell down the shaft. His body was taken to Bwlchgwyn, where his sister resides, and is now ...

... have been overtaken in their nieartiering by nightfall. Whether the birds fed them, or whether they fed themselves upon blackberries and such other luxuries is a mystery. They were missed in the evening at Gilfach, and great was the commotion. The inhabitants ...

... photographed, as it were, on my memory. My only substantial souvenirs are some jars of veritable blackberry jam and a bottle of famous cider. By the way blackberries are only good when cooked, at least I think not. to anyone past the age of twelve years. Cooking ...