... fire-place, and, while the yule-log blazed bright and cheerily, told Christmas stories, in which ghosts were as plentiful as blackberries. III one tale that was then told, the hpro belonged to a family in which insanity was hereditary (and as is commonly the ...

... gin- palace like a bad shilling? I can't tell, my son. Because you can't pass it, said the boy. Life is a tield of blackberry bushes mean people squat down and pick up the fruit, DO matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud and pe ...

... published in a periodical, and then forgotten with all convenient speed and with regard to essays, which are numerous as blackberries, the best of the small ones may shine for a month in a local publication, while the large ones are seldom published at ...

... melons, &c.: but this is just the end of winter here, so that we saw no kind of fruit, except what was unripe, and a few blackberries, just like what we have in England. There are about 15J people on the island, includ- ing several blacks, a governor, parson ...