... The Communion rail and pillars deserve a word of praise, being thatched with corn and ivy and relieved with bunches of blackberries, and on the steps of the chancel wore arrangpd palms and vogetables. The font was filled with miness tAstefully bespangled ...

... a little trumpery seminary swells out before the public as a pro. fessor, generals and colonels are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, and judges everywhere abound. These titles do not, however, mean among the Americans what they mean among ...

... between him and the snowy mount proper. He brought, however, a good collection of plants, among which were giaut heather blackberries. The Pasha was in his element among these plants and has classified them. Three days later, while driving the Warasuras ...

... ples and spoils; so if your fancy roam to tile vegetable kingdorm rather garnish yourself -ith fruits. Branches heavy with blackberries in every stare of develomnent abound so do cherries and cun-ants of uncommon brilliance. But the pret- tiest and coolest ...

... in- matesm (about forty at present) if the necessary funds wzere forthcomingr. A stroll in the open air. diversified by blackberry-hun tmi ¢ occupied an hour. Then, at seven O'clock the children of the home and i, goodly number of residents in the - vicinity ...

... sorme of the Gladstonian expectations. The sugg-estion of Mrs.- Byles, of iBradford. with tegaci to the cultivation of blackberries in Ireland 'es literally to have borne some fruit. An ex- Periment of the nature indicated bas been tried in uaity tLouth ...

... mortar are now in dangerous proximity to where schoolboys. playing the truant, still wander among the brambles in quest of blackberries. The signs are painfully evident that Wimbledon Common will ICsoon lose its picturesque pre-eminence, and that the old ...

... MaacSs' VIII- *(COsCLnDinn APoTICL.) PHEASANTS AND PHEASANT POACHING. A FEW days priorto the advent of October, when the blackberries hang luscious on the brambles, and the brown nuts drop from the clusters, the keeper goees, as is his wont, to the coppice ...

... for cash blackberries in any quantity, if brought to him on the day when gFathered. The matter was hardly. treated 'as a serious for a few days, but it soon became a reality awhen put to the test, and now every day large quantities of blackberries are brought ...

... cheap substitute in the kitchen. If blackberries are much praised now, they have suffered under re- preach full many a time and oft, and been un- justly condemned for shortcomings. Used for jam and for jelly, blackberries have been censured-the first as not ...

... warder entered with the convict's break- fast, which consisted of three poached eggs, a dish of tinned peaches, some tinned blackberries, some bread, and coffee. Birchall watched the layinu of the table with considerable interest, and partook with great appetite ...

... At our feet, sheltered by the Cornish cliff, and ready for the coming October, but overshadowed just now by dog roses and blackberry blossom, are the huge black-tarred seine boats for the pilchard fishing, which is the glory of a Cornish autuoin That ...