... Gillies returning with Deer; Mr. Nico's humorous Fisher's Knot and On the Look-out a and Mr. Mason's tender and poetic Blackberry Gathering. The dexterous execution of Mr. Halswelle's Contadino in St. Peter's, Rome, does not compensate for the work's ...

... 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 ...

... BY AN INHABITANT OF THf INVADED DISTRICT ENGLISH lanes in the month of September have usually a closer acquaintance with blackberries and hazel nuts than with troops of cavalry and regiments of the line; and English commons and heaths are more familiar ...

... electioneering of its old picturesque features. There was a time when anec- dotes of election contests were as plenty as blackberries,' but ana of this subject must now be regarded as complete. If there is any butcher in these days who, with excusable venality ...

... blowing from the plain of heath had collected there ; the rains had hardened it into soil, the wind had brought seeds; a blackberry bush had profited by the shallow bed to grow up there. This bush belonged to the species called fox black- berry. It was ...

... 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 ...

... was held oh Wednesday and following days. Over 200 dogs competed in the various stakes, and hares were as Iplentiful as blackberries. -Notwithstanding unfavourable weather a very successful meeting was held in the earlier part of the wveek at Burton-on- ...

... 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 ...

... the plan seems reasonable enough. Secretaryships being comparatively rare, while would-be secretaries are as plentiful as blackberries, it enables the employer to winnow out ineligible candidates. The concern finds its resources increased by additional capital ...

... the wild strawberry might, with a little care, become a most agreeable addition to our list of fruits, and possibly the blackberry, with some small attempt at cultivation, might almost rival the mulberry. Undoubtedly there is much land and there are many ...

... days there were poachers on the Tweed. So there are now ; and so like- wise it may be said sheepstealers were plentiful as blackberries. They are more uncommon now. Yet with all our foreign imports, in addition to our own rearing, neither mutton nor beef ...

... 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 ...