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EXTRACTS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... with in light comedies. To ask for a heaviness in any tragic English actor, appears to us _ like asking for blackness in a blackberry, or sweetness -- in a sugar-plum. But perhaps this heavy man may be wanted to give weight to the characters he personates ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... is always bad for the pitcher. Tbe man who pays more for shop rent than for adver. sic don't understand his business. The blackberry is so named because it is blue, in order 0 distinguish it from the blueberry which is blacks. If you have a pretty daughter ...

THE AUGUST MAGAZINES

... Pretty yellow cinque-foil creeps along the lanes, in whichi the coutless branble-blossoms protoiso a rich sciiprlv of blackberries. The dewberry, too, is in blos-\ot. T'ite evening priauraise still drops its shlivelled petals at nitno, to dlecl itself ...