... John weuld certainly think themselves hardty used if, in this era of liberty, when locomotion is cheap and girls plenty blackberries, they should not be allowed to piek their spouses, least, among a hundred fair ones, so as to be able to thoroughly investigate ...

... were numbers of stalls, roundabouts, swing-boats, and shootinggalleries, while gingerbread and toy stalls were thick as blackberries in a fruitful season. Perched on a in Park-street was a sharper who sold money, but those who bought found that they were ...

... chances are that he may find himself over head and ears in aorae “swag”—for in these “diggings” swags arc plentiful as blackberries—or lying some hole with a fractured limb or sprained joint. After passing the church little lane brings the visitor to ...

... pleasantly undulating country, its narrow roads in winter, knee-deep in mud, with their thick tall fences, in which the blackberries are now ripening; its green lanes which tempt the traveller from the high-road ; its pleasant footpaths through cornfields ...

... and peaches were left untouched, and whilst making desolate the raspberry bushes, they spared the strawberries and the blackberries. For lace curtains they displayed a singular fancy, and if a parlour window was left open thousands fluttered about the ...

... lT GARDENS. GRAND GAI addition to the usual trips and fetes which, during the Whitsuntide holidays, are plentiful as blackberries in a fruitful season, a grand gala came off on Monday lost in the Moat Gardens, h's fete. wlnch got by the general trade ...

... assembling of the Commons at the same house. Coronetted carriages lined the pavement, and noble lords were as thick as blackberries about Hen nett street. In consequence of the absence of Lord Derby, Lord Malmesbury took the chair ; but before he had ...

... years ago.”\ Witness also asked him if he was tired, and he said. Yes, I was walking about the fields yesterday, picking blackberries. I slept in a wood near Petworth on Wednesday night.” He also said that he left the barracks about ten o’clock on Tuesday ...

... political circles ; and, as the time of the opening of Parliament approaches, rumours, we shall find, will be as plentiful as blackberries.” Certain, however, it is that a new-born interest is now being taken political prospects. The Premier knows as well as ...

... basket. Mr Kbsworth, who appeared for the defendants, admitted tha the lads were trespassing, but had only gone in search of blackberries. The Bench, after hearing the evidence in the case of George Lawrence, dismissed it ; and the prosecutor consented, in ...

... in ladies’ bathing dresses. Disraeli wears alpaca coat and yellow pantaloons . The LouinilU Journal has seen some white blackberries. Desiccated oysters dried in the son are sold in San Francisco. Rosa Bonhenr still lanes to visit America, and paint buffaloes ...

... The Reader. _ St. Patrick’s Catholic Ke-union During the present week social gatherings have, as usual, been thick as blackberries. Monday, the re-union in aid of the schools connected with ot, Patrick’s Catholic Chapel was held in the Guildhall Assembly ...