... 626 it have been as thick as blackberries; and we observe that, at the recent meetings of the Scottish Presbytery, a nuraber of the protests have been specially emphatic. The Free Presbytery of Forfar have agreed to protest against the letter, and have ...

... young people b e l onging to N i lw i c k Ch ape l h a d arrange d to spend a day at Hilcombe Wood—of blackberry memory. course:there were no blackberries now, but it was ;alway s an attractive spot, and never more so perhaps than in early summer. The day ...

... subjects, but, true to his ruling passion, uses allegories and similitudes as if they were as plentiful with him as the blackberries promise to be with us this autumn. HARSH judgment, rough words, small but frequent acts of selfishness and injustice, sometimes ...

... had no sooner entered the house than the dragoons returned. He fled, telling his father he would conceal himself behind a blackberry-bush in the garden. To that very bush did one of the dragoons go to pluck the berries. While in the act of so doing, his ...

... his hand tied up in his handkerchief. They had been for a stroll through Hilcombe W and Arnold was bent upon a feast of blackberries, finest of which grew in the thickest part of the wood. securing his object he had terribly scratched and torn hands, and ...

... miniature valley, hidden between steep banks or hills one hundred feet high, and clothed from foot to summit with gorse, blackberry bushes, and luxuriant ferns with their green elegant fronds. The horse is soon contentedly browsing on the short grass by ...