... tiser, of the 12th Dec., tells the following thrilling tale: —“ Last fall, a woman residing in the vicinity of was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, a bright-eyed little fellow of less than a year old.. The babe ...

... the trees; of playing at hide-and-seek, She also loved to wander away gathering of raspberries, or wild strawberries, or blackberries, or hips and liaws in their season. So it ehaneed one day while she was away a dog came by and scattered her flock; or ...

... at this season, a peared fuller of promise. As indicative of an early harvest the oats are already fn the ear, and the blackberry bushes in fall blossom—the latter being popularly regarded as a most cheering omen. New potatoes are now daily in our vegetable ...

... sup plied him with small sums at long interest, 2% i 3 while his figure was good, and where rich wives were as plenty as blackberries. “ A season or twoin London, A when you come. the world's wonder ofa fine fellow, and with money in bot 'd arich merchant's ...

... masterpiece of Vauban—is not work wbich should make Englishmen tremble for the future. France may construct forts as plentiful blackberries along its coasts; but there is great truth in some familiar lines about Britannia needing no bulwarks, and “no towers along ...

... It is well known that since the advent of the present Government to power, the applications for places were #s plenty as blackberries in autumn, whilst the places-have been so very few end far between, as compared with former times, that hundreds of expectants ...

... nunnery all the sisters were astir in their best tuckers, aud he finished bis Mass, as the wee-we fiuished her bonuy banch of blackberries, withou ...

... besides, his police and spies are not every one of them on the other side of the channel—he has them here too, plenty as blackberries. They failed not to inform him what reception the British people were likely to give him. Then what does he meditate? Why ...

... that the Tories round Lord Eglintoun never lose an opportunity of asserting that false oaths in Ireland are as plenty as blackberries.— The Irish peasantry, they say, between their poverty and their popery, are ready at a moment’s notice to take or violate ...

... pointed, and saw on the grass a number of fiat, oval stones, set out in regular tea-table order. On these stones were piled black-berries, whortleberries,ground nuts, fresh hazel-nuts, and some pieces of dry bread. Little bouquets of the rich prairie flowers ...

... was upon the daughter of highly-respectable fanner, living near Marshall It that a munber of children had gone to gather blackberries not far from the town. where tile negro, who belonged one of the neighbouring tarmers. was at work in a field. According ...

... a cabbage bed—throngh the cabbage bed into a potato. field— across the potato-field fall headway into hedge through: he blackberry bushes until at last I clasped it lodged between I bore a proud trophy. The owner stool near to the spot where I had left ...