... longer in this way? I hope not. If hoping was all that is wanted to get reading-rooms, they would soon be as plentiful as blackberries are at the present time; therefore, as hoping is not sufficient, I will tell you what I am willing to do and I trust every ...

... were very numerous, in Australia they were very scarce. So with the paddlers!, who a few years no were as plentiful as blackberries —now they were very scarce. There were plenty of blacklegs to be found, he knew. At Brow pton Forge they had a lot of ...

... the pit heap, nor will our masters hear of such things. I hope our association will spread all over the United Kingdom. A BLACKBERRY SEEKER. Waterhouse; Oct. 19, 1863. To thc Eclitoe THE MINER AND WORKMAN'S ADVOCATE. SIR, —Knowing the deep interest you ...

... waiscoat ? To keep a check upon his stomach. When a negro dies, what rural amusement falls to his brethren ?—They go a blackberrying. What contemptible character is sure to receive a lady's hand and touch her heart ?—A muff. Why are a fox and a cock good ...

... Scythians had their emirs on the banks of the Jihon ; the chivalrous Grecians had their chief magistrates, now kings; the blackberry pickers of Germany had their dodges (and a good and applicable name too) ; and the hairy Picts had their laird on the banks ...

... ]—Scotsman. SHOCKING MURDER OF A CHILD IN NOTTINGHAM.—On Saturday afternoon, towards four o'clock, two boys were gathering blackberries in a field at the top of Wood-lane, approaching Mapperley-hills, Nottingham, just beyond the brick-yard of Mr. Gripper ...

... On Wednesday, the 7th instant, witness and deceased, and two other lads, were at Walthamstewe. They were out gathering blackberries in the forest. At five o'clock they set out for home. On the way they met two, lads,. named John Mordaunt and George Meadows ...

... the acquaintance of bird, and flower, and tree. We made necklaces of daisies, and trimmed our bonnets with wild roses and blackberry blossoms, and if we went hungry we ate the tender shoots of the hawthorn and the honied petals of the red-clover flower ...

... would not take well at the present time ; nevertheless, it belongs to a class of frauds which are as abundant in England as blackberries in month of September. The crafty and indolent por;ions of society have so many facilities for getting up novel, associations ...

... under the trees, And they find the pink fox-glove, the drooping bluebell, The pretty wild violet, and primrose as well; And blackberry bushes, with long arms thrown out, Like Custom House officers, saucy and stout, And quite as tenacious. They take tea ...

... weilther at Wimbledon. A BLACK OFFENCE.—We understand that the Council have determined to prosecute any persona who are found black•berrying. THE HEALTH Or THE MET.EOPOLIS.—Y.IIOIi illncs.s may be looked for about tune of harvest, which is invariably a sickle•y ...