... in the state. Nearly everyone is either holding on to office or struggling to secure office, and offices are as thick as blackberries in autumn. It is not a question of giving useful service, but simply of getting put on the pay roll and drawing the salary ...

... raj card, and like it very much. We live near Epping Forest. We have had a month's holiday. We go into the forest and get blackberries. It is a jolly place for boys. We take our boots and stockings off and paddle, and there ate snob dear little frogs. The ...

... vows that he will remain there. Whether the bulk of the workers will go to his assistance or will remain content to pluck blackberries by the wayside, and quarrel among themselves, remains to be seen. Nevertheless, a few brave workers are now trying to widen ...

... as unmistakeable manner. In the memory of the °idea in- habitants the children have been allowed to pick mushrooms and blackberries freely in the fields, it being considered that as these were uncultivated and the gifts of Nature they should be enjoyed ...

... chfimed exemption! THE USUALLY nay summer to have been very favourable to tho blackberry crop this year, which has been exceptionally plentiful. During the last fortnight blackberries have fanned the staple food of thousmids of country tramps and travellers ...

... a wart under his nose. What do my red-nosed cronies and modern neanapers require moat' As I was saying, the colour of a blackberry when it is green being red, I received an editorial mandate which read as follows : Let the Wastrel prepare pars. on people ...

... LABOUR LEADER. Put on your coat your gaiters, Put on your boots and your cap ! The way is lain down the blackberry lane, And out thro' the meadow gap: Black ones, and tab ,v, and brindled, Randy and white and brown, They will tr, meet you, and purr to ...

... ours, which in turn appeared in The awd Rotherham independent re the non-insertion of a letter sent an the prohibition of blackberry gathering, says that the letter sent was anonymous. Now, both the writer of the letter and a friend wbo saw it written and ...

... crag or ridge sharply outlined against the blue above it, where (craw the most wonderful raspberries, whinberries, and blackberries. Corners of cottage dwellings peep out here and ihere among the trees not one but has its garden, bright with flowers, ...

... she could tell you what month the swallow came, when to expect the first snow-drop or blue-bell or May-blossom when the blackberries would be ripe, when to: look for raspberries, and a lot more things that they don't teach in the board schools, but ought ...

... work amongst the stone, be looked fur labour at his trade. Then finding that wherever he went masons were plentiful as blackberries upon an autumn hedge, he looked for work at any eon scions of strength a'. youth and wish to be of nee in the great world ...