... fire-place, and, while the y ole-log blazed bright and cheerily, told Christmas stories, in which ghosts wore ptentifol blackberries. one tale that was then told the hero belonged to family in which insanity was hereditary, and (as commonly the case in ...

... yonder the dasied knoll— The centre of a whining brood. Brown tbe hascls which they steal Gipsey beauty stood. Blacker than blackberries her eyes, And still hot blacker than her hair, Which lolled lazy flakes upon Her olive shoulders bare. Here were they all ...

... stands for the present pates the happiness of meeting with the friends, with ' whom he chased the butterfly, or picked the blackberry! Absent friends, too, will not be forgotten-the broad and mighty billows of the Atlantic may sweep between them, but still ...