... Gillies returning with Deer; Mr. Nico's humorous Fisher's Knot and On the Look-out a and Mr. Mason's tender and poetic Blackberry Gathering. The dexterous execution of Mr. Halswelle's Contadino in St. Peter's, Rome, does not compensate for the work's ...

... BY AN INHABITANT OF THf INVADED DISTRICT ENGLISH lanes in the month of September have usually a closer acquaintance with blackberries and hazel nuts than with troops of cavalry and regiments of the line; and English commons and heaths are more familiar ...

... dinners in which quantity at least is not wanting; while as for fruits, there are always strawberries, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, huckleberries, currants, blue- berries (in the mountain regions), peas, apples, peaches, melons of various kinds, plums ...

... electioneering of its old picturesque features. There was a time when anec- dotes of election contests were as plenty as blackberries,' but ana of this subject must now be regarded as complete. If there is any butcher in these days who, with excusable venality ...

... the plan seems reasonable enough. Secretaryships being comparatively rare, while would-be secretaries are as plentiful as blackberries, it enables the employer to winnow out ineligible candidates. The concern finds its resources increased by additional capital ...

... the wild strawberry might, with a little care, become a most agreeable addition to our list of fruits, and possibly the blackberry, with some small attempt at cultivation, might almost rival the mulberry. Undoubtedly there is much land and there are many ...

... days there were poachers on the Tweed. So there are now ; and so like- wise it may be said sheepstealers were plentiful as blackberries. They are more uncommon now. Yet with all our foreign imports, in addition to our own rearing, neither mutton nor beef ...

... of nicknames, Christian names admitting of but a limited choice in the country, and Jacks and Dicks abounding like the blackberries. Hence a system of prefixes obtains, as it used to do in the Borders with such a name as Armstrong, its possessors having ...

... assuming a wild river-like appearance. I should like to turn out a national school to pasture on the never-ending succession of blackberry bushes. I returned by the pleasant high road, with its green margin wider than the road itself, and bordering on sonie of ...

... the other. As we drew near the village, groups of children returning from the Ecole Communale interrupt their raid on the blackberry bushes, (though covered with dust, the fruit to them is just as sweet), to look slily at us, and give us a passing bon ...

... the culmninating point of St. llelena. Here a few roughly-squared blocks of tufa, now over- grown with wildl-pel)er and blackberry brambles, are all that remain to mark the site of Edmund Ialley's observatory, where 200 years ago he noted the transit ...

... do part of the family's scrambling for money, by picking wild strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and fine luscious blackberries, and standing on the road side, offering the fruit for sale to the tourists in pretty baskets, platters, or boxes of birch-bark ...