... He did not charge me with running oilier men. Spiller then came in over the hedge, and told him she had been picking blackberries. He said, dare say you have come for the purpose of listening. young man named Thomas Holmes lived in the house. I never ...

... around them, like well-drilled rows of charity cbildren out for a holiday walk; sud the grapes too, meorb plentiful than blackberries, hawked ia tbe streets and. old by the cwt. at a less' price than soap or sugar; not to mention peaches plucked for the ...

... to be followed in the course of next week. Addresses to the Queen and to the Bishop of the Diocese are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. Every church porch has its table, and the people crowd around before the commencement and at the end of each ...

... also the Charters of the Bank of England and East India Company to be discussed. Colonial and Irish questions as thick as blackberries; private measures are expected to be more numerous, and besides all, the Government it is anticipated intend to lay on ...

... steaming it.' It is decidedly in bad taste attend the funeral of black friend, and tben inform your friends you have been blackberrying. Witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping off a broken string ; but a word of kindness seldom spoken in ...

... said of a berry which is called the \' blackberry. It is described as being, when fully ripe, a light greenish brown colour. A friend who is very *' very desirous to if they are red when green, like black blackberry. fl A Horrible Business.— Master Butcher ...

... agree with that the system making oScers, in large U , W j . extravagance. We have Captains of all denominations thick as blackberries, and have a pretty fair sprinkling of generals of all sorts, and admirals of all kinds scattered over the country. Every ...

... horses lit line only ploughing three-fourths of acre. Again, steam-engines Norfolk, Lincoln, and Scotland, as plentiful as blackberries (p. 34) ; and then the erroneous statement that last year he visited Devonshire, and found a recently erected tilery on ...

... one hon. member state his expenses at £40,000 for one election. Elections costing from £5,000 to £10,000 were 'plenty as blackberries'— (loud laughter). Now be (Mr. Bell) had had the excitement of an election, the luxury of petition, and all the expenses ...

... to it, provided they could be first fairly drawn, and then comfortably quartered. Touching Metaphor.—Life is a field of blackberry bushes. Mean people squat down and pick the fruit, no matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud and perpendicular ...

... white bugles. The petticoat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and white ribands. The head wreath was composed of blackberries and diamonds. Among those present from this neighbourhood were, Earl Morley, Lord Bridport, Sir J. Y. Buller, Bart., M- ...

... litbes, ad taxes upon them. Aain, in partt ei Norolk, Linooloshire, and Scotland, steam- engines ate almnost as plentiful s blackberries; whilst in most otherceonties, theyhave few or noue. In my own, with a million of acres, we have lees than hslf.a-dozen ...