... interesting instance of his gourmand taste. The 'crop of a greyhen which I opened, he says, contained rasp- berries, blackberries, ants, heather, grass, and oats, and the bird, after having half filled her crop with the grain, had evidently com- pleted ...

... induced our party-managers in latter days to sub- stitute the lady for the male canvasser. Though reasons be as plentiful as blackberries, the average elector will vote for no one on compulsion. The more a fellow-man attempts to teach him the more resentful ...

... carpeted with bracken, with here and there a bright-coloured gorse-bush or-prickly bramble, laden in autumn with luscious blackberries. In the spring the ground is bright with acres of bluebells, primroses, and violets. In summer the woods are alive with ...

... the growers, whq have no har~estingy expenses, or storage-room rent, or any indefinite period to wait for their money. BLACKBERRIES This wild fruit is so plentiful this year by hedgerow and copse and on moor and common, that correspondents are asking ...

... jostled each other on the high road to fame; when beautiful women, be they duchesses or fruit-girls, were as frequent as blackberries. Yet they had all passed out of sight but for him who had magic enough to transform what had else been a mere memory into ...

... a steep hill marked Dangerous to Cyclists. It is a beautiful country, the road bordered by tall hedges covered with blackberries, on which the Boy had a feed. The landlady persuaded him to try some of her choice halfpenny cigars. I think he wofully ...

... number ot eminent lawyers who have been distinguished in literature is not great. Bacons have not been exactly as common as blackberries, and the list of Chancellors, Chief Justices, or learned jurists in general, who have made their mark in letters, does ...

... elk and killed him ; here I enjoyed glorious salmon-trout fishing, and thoroughly patronised the famous muilterberries, blackberries, and wild strawberries, but these were all over, and evening chills he- raided the coming winter. I was talking to Ole-the ...

... Fisher is President of the National Skating Association, and has won its badge. And as for Old Blues, they are as common as blackberries at St. Stephen's. ...

... dinner table are luxuries our forefathers knew nothing of. Dinner- table decoration was restricted to holly and ivy and blackberry sprays, or the sparse products of the con- servatory grudgingly contributed by the gardener, and looked upon by him as pure ...

... romances to delight them and pass away the happy hours ? This is the blackberry season. Among the rich and russet autumnal tints stands out prominently the foliage of the blackberry so often used by gardeners in table decoration, but the delight of the ...

... years ago alleged it to be, its works do not multiply fast enough to main- tain their relative proportion to the whole. The blackberry is common enough in a sense, but as the hedge grows high and thick the berries get further and further outstripped by the ...