... down to Epping in the warm weather, containing school children and others, and family picnics are got up under the trees. Blackberries, says an indignant East Londoner used to be within six miles of Whitechapel; the Whitechapel and Bethnal Green boys must ...

... Breach of promise cases are again as plentiful as blackberries. As a rule, if you master the details of one of these actions you are tolerably competent to diagnose the rest, but, as in the case of blackberries, there are some of more ,than ordinary size and ...

... school £5 for pocket-money, when another young duffer can barely muster more than as many shillings? Why do blackberries grow upon a blackberry bush? At the first glance, the question ought thus to be met in the Socratic style. If, however, we descend ...

... HUNTING NOTES. Hunters were in their glory a few days ago. Foxes are as plentiful as blackberries, comparatively speaking. Several brilliant runs have already taken place in various parts of the country. Twelve miles in forty-five minutes—across country ...

... are visited by a veritable epidemic of breach of promise cases. Injured damsels and perfidious swains are as plentiful as blackberries when the latter happen to be in season, and the amount of tender and gushing epistles which are day after day handled, ...

... and legislators. The mud was thick, the fog was thicker, and the legislators were strewn about the West End as thickly as blackberries in a Devonshire lane. There was no distinction yesterday between the swell member and the scarecrow member. The legislator ...

... expert with the gun will secure good bags. Hares in most of the home countries, are plentiful, and rabbits are as thick as blackberries. Farmers raise the old cry of being eaten up alive by them. The pheasant coverts vary much in stock, in some preserves ...

... perceive that he has come into a social atmosphere as honest and good as the breeze is pure which sweeps over the grass and the blackberry blossoms. By way of a tonic for insular cynics, commend us to such a day as Saturday last on Wimbledon turf. Mr. Winterhalter ...

... spend a pleasant recess. The bonnet of the period is a miniature kitchen garden. It is decorated with cherries, grapes, blackberries, little carrots, bits of parsley, long pale-green beans, sorrel, marjorum and other vegetables familiar to professors of ...