... kind : the tale of the Pioneer's Cottage, though somewhat dawdlingly treated, is original, graphic, and mildly tragic; Blackberry Farm (describing a site which Nature reclaims as her own) is naive and amusing. The fable about the narrator's Pegasus ...

... gutter From cliff and cavern, field and moor and stream, To Cromwell-road and miles of tight-closed shutter; From junket, blackberries, and clotted cream To dubious eggs, blue milk, and pallid butter; From Rus, in short ('twould pall to make a proper list) ...

... any superlative amount of casi, or I Ic stayed anl IuInconIsciously long time over the (labris of cold ?? kcy, are as blackberries I Finially a wvord of execra. tion is mluc to the illustrations, wvlicli arie ar, far ?? than those of ile I'rwii, I/cra/il ...

... proper bramble, the little flower that has the blackberry for fruit, flattered, for the time, by the name of rose ? If so, I think this Dirge of Tennyson's is the only poem that has celebrated the blackberry-blossom-tender little form of a rose that has ...

... Aunt Dacic, Major Birt, Mlazie Birt, Lucelle McGregor, Dumphie McGregor, and the Rev. Louis Draycott were as plentiful as blackberries amongst us. These are the leading characters in Louis Draycott: the Story of his Life, by Mrs. Laffan (Chapman and Hall) ...

... picking leathers off a toad, or clothes off a naked man, and i} you squeeze a crab apple you get only sourness. Sloes and blackberries grow in the:same hedge, and their natures are as they began. Older they grow, they grow either sweeter or sourer. A screw ...

... autobio- graphy in detail from the cut of their pinafores to the items of their menus, from their early recollections of blackberries to their present affection for white- bait or oysters. MUSHROOM AND TOADSTOOL LITERATURE, There must be a public which ...

... remembered (in one of the lucid intervals) that the month which is not too late for nightingales is a trifle early for ripe blackberries. While nature does these things, man and woman become creatures of clinging lips, gleamiling ripe shoulders, and veils ...

... OPERA BUFFA, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. Fior's for opera buffa can scarcely be said to grow on blackberry-bushes. In France even, where dramatic invention measured by the standard of English barrenness seems almost fertile, some difficulty is experienced in ...

... P ii'i. (in one of the lucid intervals) that the month which is not t ?? PVC , nightingales is a trifle early for ripe blackberries. Wh\ile n:ilx itO l . things, man and wvomnan become creatures of clingin, lips, gici nda shoulders, and veils of rippling ...

... greengrocers and retailed at a high price. Later the blackberries ripen and form his third great crop; the quantity he brings in to the towns is astonishing, and still there is always a customer. The blackberry harvest lasts for several weeks, as the berries ...

... faithful, venerable, red-eyed spaniel, cannot stand our loitering any longer; he sees no beauty in the hedgerows heavy with blackberries, beautiful with clematis, and scarlet and yellow foliage, with hip and haw, and the bedeguar of the rose; he has no curiosity ...