... bat then it was in the old days of a liippant House of Commons led by a flippant leader, when jokes were as plenty as blackberries, and the First M mister of the Crown regarded the first question tho day chiefly as joke. Bat now have got an earnest—may ...

... security and honesty. Bat it is one thing to reeolve to insure; His another to select company. Agent* are aa plentiful as blackberries in the autumn, and companies, ranging from the most reliable to the moet dishonest, flourish oa all sides. To insure in ...

... clothes, and a wide-awake hat- At Puddletown, which is five miles from Dorchester, Beaumont was arrested . whilst picking blackberries. He was attired at tlie time in clotnoa he had stolen from the hotel, and wore a surplice, which he had taken from the ...

... of tbom When the little nigger boy wanted to attend his father’s funeral, ho asked tho schoolmaster for holiday to go a-blackberrying. What’s been up lately ? Umbrellas. Name comic editress mentioned Shakespeare— Shylock’s daughter, who was jest-seeker ...

... and potatoes.” When a little negro boy wanted (o attend his father’s funeral, asked the schoolmaster for holiday to go black-berrying. Mrs. Farnhau, of Wisconsin, has just buried her sixth husband, and the papers call her enooessfnl planter. Yankee impudence ...

... on the coral reefs.” Two gentlemen passing blackberry bush when the fruit was unripe, one said it was ridiculous to call them blackberries when they were red. Don’t you know,” said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green.”— The ...

... on the hearae General of Diyiiion’e nniform, with one of th-.ee kepis” with numberless golden bands su-h were plenty as blackberries daring the war. Behind the hearse, on the bla pall. Cromer mxhtary medals and decorations were fastened. The crowd, while ...

... walker’s quest. Ou another occasion, eluded the vigilance of his parents about midnight, and wont long distance in search of blackberry bushes. His parents, who now reside in Rossendalo, afterwards ! came to live in Shepherd-street, Bury, and there, on ' one ...

... inches in height? elusive—had gone some half-a-dozen miles out of the Very evidently not, for that moment she came place on blackberry excursion, and had installed him bounding from a direction nearly opposite, her slight who couldn’t possibly coaxed to accompany ...

... you see the little marks like goose-tracks ? Those are witches’ footsteps. The witches and the fairies were plenty here blackberries, and I know man who had friends amongst them once. His name is Torn Nolan, and today he lives a rich man ia America ; but ...

... Mole;” then the young gentlemen at the lodging-house where I was I took to giving me all sorts names: Double Smut, * and ** Blackberry,” and Plumbago.” But bless yer *art, sir, I didn’t mind, for it’s all natur’ with me. No eoap wouldn't get clean. Ter. ...

... resort as any hereabouts. This terrace or promenade was skirted seawards by a mixture of woody shrub ery, hazel, sumach, blackberry, and wild cherry, interspersed with fern, dock, and flowering parasites. This verdant garment, fair enough to look upon ...