... returned heme from his work on the morning of Thursday last, told his wife that he wou d go out to the fields to gather some blackberries, for the purpose of making a tart but his not returning that day nor ntglit, raised the suspicions of his wife and friends ...

... pathetic ballad over which we then wept as we thought of the children in the wood. Their little bands and pretty lips With blackberries were dyed, And when they saw the darksome night They sate them down and cried. And, as if to remind us the more forcibly ...

... pears were 3d. to 4d. a dozen. Damsons, of which there wa. not a great supply, sold at 8d. per quatt, and there were some blackberries at 3d. per quait. We noticed some very fine cucumbers these were priced at 4d. each. Of fish, there was not a great supply ...

... his bank book. opening it he displayed page after page, where two shillings and six- pence entries were as numerous as blackberries in autumn, turning over a few pages he said 2s. 6d. a week for the 1st year is £ 6 10d., and this 2s. 6d. per week for ...

... learned the superiority of cross over direct fire; eight o'clock came. The big wigs assembled, and soldiers were as thick as blackberries everywhere near the place of rendezvous. The Rajah rode up with his gallant band of excessively irregular-looking troops ...

... dark ages than to the 19th century; and he is evidently not aware that copies of the Fathers are nearly as plentiful as blackberries, and may be had, at prices vary- ing from four to ten shillings a volume, any day of the week. Foreign editions of them ...

... grossest articles —even on iron. In NewYoik the number of men who acorn to labour in Pennsylvania make stores as plentiful as blackberries. Almost the only coal company of hundreds in the district, which pays their men in cash, is in Carbondale; they have bu ...

... dint. The other day, leaving his work with a wet shirt, after a vigorous application to the wash tub, he must needs go a blackberrying, but too many had been before him. He succeeded in getting materials for his favourite pie, after a Inng- walk, and it ...

... them, whether as town councillors, aldermen, magistrates, or mayors. The candidates certainly are not like Shakspeare's blackberries; the annual or biennial iippcal for some, the constant badgering for others, render the task disagreeable, and so we get ...

... repeat—for there we are beyond the outermost limits of those trowsered genus who infest the bushes and play havoc amongst the blackberries in autumn a.:d in a land where men and women like to do little as possible, and that little the most profitablp that can ...

... with trowsers Patched, and jacket made from one His sire had worn. At early dawn Lagging behind to pluck the flowers, and Blackberries pick, till, roused at Length, by threat, or oath, he ambles On, and all the day works in the pit Amid rude scenes, and ...

... measures, and by so doing > confer a benefit on their fellow-countrymen. At present, Reform B Us are almost as numerous as blackberries, -the greater reason for laaving the decision to really practical hands, thorgh neither party appears disposed to Jay ...