... labour alone made the value of those things, and that he couldn't have so much as a drink of water, and a bellyful of sour blackberries, without the labour of getting them, and, I hope, of scratching his hands in the clumsiness of his efforts. ...

... Dukes, Earls, Viscounts, Barons, Generals, Major-Generals, Judges, etc., and firir , 3wagger Mausoleums are as plentiful as blackberries in the golden autumn, bat for o - tr they arc useless. They present no features. They all seem to possess *tout the same ...

... happiness, love and laughter, and all the other things without which life is not worth living. * * * If there were only enough blackberries at Derrvhaw, for instance, to supply the needs of the few folk about, of what a wealth of beauty the country would be bereft ...

... isn't that I haven't got anything in the way of absurdities to chuckle over ; absurdities of all kinds are as plentiful as blackberries are supposed to be, and no professional joker need stop for want of material. But there are times when the absurdities ...

... nine. By three o'clock we were on top of Bembridge Down in a gale of wind. Harry developed a keen interest in blackberries. He said the blackberry has a peculiar flavour of its owu, wild and sweet, and was preferable to many more expensive fruits. Half an ...

... ladies blackberrying, and was again invited to assist with the higher branches, it occurred to me that perhaps this was the F. Langhorne whose knife had been so busy. And, later, as we were loitering on the bridge, trying to drop blackberries on a sleepy ...

... said Good business, An' winked him ozer eye. I wonder why a bishunip Was going in a wood. taps she's get tin' blackberries, — Cos blackberries is good. An' when a lion seen her lie hid into his cave, An' a crocunalle sat down to wait Ahind a likkle wave ...

... long as they are sent. So no more at present, from yours truly,—M. B.J OUR WOMAN'S LETTER. BY JULIA DAWSON. IT was down a blackberry-besprinkled byway that I took with me to read John Burns's Tragedy of Toil and some Irish newspapers. That lane was ...

... never seen a cow, some thinking it as big as their thumb or the picture. Over 60 per cent. had never seen growing corn, blackberries, or potatoes 71 per cent. did not know beans—even in Boston. The Crown Prince of Bulgaria, aged two months, is already ...

... taking two pills and a potion. And he went to sleep thinking physic was a poor kind of thing, but that blackberries are jolly. I think blackberries are far the beet when you pick them yourself, and I also think it's time to leave off now, so goodnight ...

... called himself a king and yet had neither palace nor servants, and who called himself Common Sense, though he lived on blackberries and birds' eggs, and in a green tub. Then the little Prince thought of his promise to visit the town of Slumby, alone, ...

... Liptiook, walked from there to Bramshott through charming lanes and footpaths, bordered with sandstone iu the cuttings. Blackberries were plentiful all along the route. We lunched on the common, and then rambled on to Waggoners' Wells—or. as a rustic genius ...