... Mr. Stephens' Blackberry Picking, well carved as it is, may be qnoted as another example of what is to deprecated. What does it mean? Here is a pretty, but absurd young lady, enzisha. bile, supposed to have been picking blackberries! The truth is, the ...

... brims are much worn. A very pretty trimming for them consists of a black velvet bow and ends to fasten a wreath of ivy, blackberry blossom, and fruit. Wild flowers and fruit are much used for trimming straw hats and bonnets. The cavalier- shape hat in ...

... warning to the careless swimmer we may mention Medusa and her Locks, a story of the poisonous Cyanea, capillata, and a Blackberry Bush in Autumn, as a pleasant sketch of one of these common objects of the hedgerow, from which so much may be learnt had ...

... of the days when we went gipsying -a long time ago-spare them for the children to gather the flowers of May and the blackberries of September. When the orange spot glows upon the beech, then the nuts are ripe, and the hawthorn bushes are hung with ...

... monstrosity called the Toad Rock on our right; the approach to the latter is guarded by a detachment of small boys deserting the blackberry bushes in the anticipation of halfpence, which boon having been accorded or refused, they disappear among the brambles, ...

... unbecoming, tilted over the eyebrows, so that the wearer can see nothing above her boot tips, and trimmed with cherries or blackberries hanging feebly downwards, or, worse still, woollen lumps which resemble nothing in nature. A becoming hat or bonnet of ...

... stooping under a bundle of cut furze; or a horde of shy little flaxen-polled savages beating the bushes in quest of a few late blackberries ; but sometimes they went for two or three miles without encountering a soul. More than once, a covey of partridges rose ...

... which onehasneverbeen celebrated can lay little claim to prestige or renown. They have become plentiful as the proverbial blackberry, and, strangest thing of all, nobody seems to grow tired of them. Let the weather be but propitious, and there is alwvays ...

... sing. That was another occupation. Then I used to ride with the boys, or sometimes we would go fishing, or nutting, or blackberrying-oh ! there was plenty to do, and the days were never too long. ' A better education than most ladies can show, he replied ...

... declines to explain till he hears that ,.II his brother nurserymen have made their fortunes. We are glad he has a good word for blackberry jam; with cream he pronounces it quite an exotic dish -the ne plu hs ultra, we suppose, of praise from a nurseryman. ...

... mother-sheep, the feeding of the cattle, and the clover meadows. We are taken into the lane and examine the hedges, the blackberries, and the cottage, and we hear the song of the thrush ; into the woods in tender spring, in green summer, and golden autumn ...

... germinate in the poorest ground, then as successive growths of this weed decay and vegetable mould accumiulates, r spberry ind blackberry vines spring up from seeds brouglht by bilrds. Theru come the birches and mountain cherry trees, sheltered at first by the ...