... subject, and he thought that the reasons for the law were not like Falstaff’s, as plentiful as blackberries, nor were the best of them even worth blackberry. The advocates of prohibition must feel their cause to be weak indeed when they could find nothing ...

... that if our life had been as short as theirs, they would have totally defeated ua in the competition for nuts and ripe blackberries. I can hardly agree to this extravagant statement ; but I think, in life of twenty years, the efforts of the human mind ...

... and their food, cons ir;g of lintel soup, ‘•ausages, and much as the amount of rental, and not the capacity for paying, blackberries. That was the food the lab urer» were fed with, and regulates the demands of the rate collector. I beg to apologise for ...

... Dinner.— ln our report of the proceedings at this dinner, last week, the chairman was represented as having stated that blackberries formed part of the food of the labourers in Germany; we need scarcely say that the word was a misprint —hlack hread being ...

... had set the nek lire, and allcrin a reason that hunger had driven him to do so, he had lor a long time subsisted only on blackberries and turnips. It appears that the dues, ...

... ribands and White b-gfes. The petticoat ;W of while silk, tiaoiiuS |w V '! ' W, '* ri, ; Majesty wore r..uud composed of blackberries and diamonds Among the noblemen and gentlemen who had the amur of »e.iig presented were. Lord Calthorpc, the Marquis of ...

... months old. This country produce, especially the fruit, is the finest I ever saw in the world. The vines grow rapid as the blackberry does at home. We have nothing to do but to trench the land, and then cut off a piece of the old tree, and in two years will ...

... Scarratt. It seemed the complainant, the 11th September, was in the fields getting blackberries, in company with Stale girl belonging tbe defendant, and a scramble after blackberry, the child defendant tore the frock the rnrnphrtnant. The complainant that hit ...

... notice, with view to prevent trespassing, had appeared in the papers. The defendant at first said that was simply gathering blackberries, and doing no damage whatever; then denied having been in the coppice on the day named, and contradicted what the witness ...

... he, Randall. Perry, and two other boys, went to Tettenhall (two miles from Wolverhampton), about eleven clock. They got blackberries, afterwards helped a woman to get l>enrfi, and ...

... till the principal races pos ate over. Divisional generals, brigadiers, colonels, and staff- oth ficers were “ plenty as, blackberries,” and, though the only Mei the of the fair sex was Mrs. Seacole, who presided Ger ver a sorely invested tent full of creature ...

... leathern-lunged merchants, of both sexes, demonstrating, by reference to the of tbeir wares, that reasons were as plentiful blackberries that •* you should the race-course.” The booths were all open and f«U of people, but in consequence of the Magistrates ...