... discussion on the rela- tive merits of Horsecy, Finchley, Wanstead, Epping, and Woodford, as suitable places of resort for blackberry gather. ing. At last September came, and the first jaunt took place. We took our dinners with us in our bags, though many ...

... swarming with fish. I have been two or three times be- calmed there, and caught cod as big as donkeys and as plenty as blackberries. Upon that infor- mation Captain Rhodes acted. He had often thought of trying it, but it is a lonely place to go to alone ...

... siclly Mrs Lnzarus and thecbhildren, wtho, poor things ! hivo a practical knowledge of nb fruit more costly thas apples an'd blackberries. ind even Dives'early class-fellow, Urbanus, not' so undistinguished oir au unsuccessnl man, who it'nov mwaking a fair ...

... was per- .p- feetly naked, and had a cord tied tightly round rs- theneck. Two boys came up at thetime gather. is- irng blackberries, and they went to fetch a police- )w man. A nurse at the Nottingham Union Work- oh house remembered the child being born ...

... 12th instant, tells the following thrilling tale :- Last fall a woman residing in the vicinity of Worcester was picking, blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, a bright-eyed little fellow of less than a year old. The babe ...

... the Whigs are notoriously lucky; and when they are in office, pieces of preferment are sure to fall in as plentifully as blackberries. ‘There is not a single ex-Attorney or ex-Solicitor-General of theirs unprovided for; but poor Sir Frederick Thesiger and ...

... costume has strikingly supported this view.- Critic. MMlUnORIES oF Bo11iiooc-Tho crowning joys were b huttercupping and blackberrying. As soon as the spring warmth brought forth the golden dandolions, and gave a now greenness to the grass in Stcpney churchyard ...

... opirpbser6. 'snake busines' may. be.' overMOee, and the.mar .ketglutted. Tbe lot ,abovejquotcd wassentin by a Sonth-Jersey blackberry pickerjandXrealqed 'higher: piices thah n similar- lo last ye1r-pro- 'bably. owing tb thest'jlo iii 4which tbeyvwei'e put ...

... if wve mavi believe the last accounts, wvas already the heroine of the dav. Sonnets and serenades were as plentiful as blackberries, WEST INDIES. Our news from Jamaica is to the 11th of January. The cholera sems to be on the decrease at Kingston, although ...

... BELLADONNA FOR BLACicBURBIrts. -Last week, says the Maidstone Gazette, some children belonging to the town of Sevenoaks went oat blackberry gathering; and one of them, a lad about ten years of age, was induced to eat some berries which he found growing in Knole ...

... fiuitagc of such comnmon growth that they did not seem to him worth legislative notice. le would as soon think of protecting blackberries. Now, the mechanicatl im- provement made by A. to-day, and patented, could very possibly occur to B. to-morrowv. But may ...

... his claim as being the rightful owner. This rather made the matter more compli- cated, as Smith is a name as plentiful as blackberries, and let one choose his parish, there would be plenty of pretenders to eke prize. After all the idle speculation, the winner ...