... school, in their leafy retreat, The wild birds sit listening the drops round them beat; And the boy crouches close to the blackberry wall. The swallows alone take the storm on their wing, And, taunting the treo-sheltered labourers, sing, Like pebbles the ...

... covers, and acorns be in them, but few birds will migrate. Pheasants are very general feeders, and vary their diet with blackberries, sloes, haws, and other wild fruits. They are known to seek the roots of the common buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus, and ...

... young Fitzstoat following with a loaded gun—for they were minded to shoot rabits—when the lock and trigger were caught a blackberry-bush, and the contents were suddenly lodged in the body of the luckless Mountferret. By this unfortunate and tragical occurrence ...

... with respect to what the work really professes to be. Directories, Guide Books, Ac., would seem to spring tip thick as blackberries, for verily we have a goodly crop of this species of helps to information, emanating from the metropolitan and our provincial ...

... family, as if [ bad been born and bred among them. I found that I had come in a critical time. when secrets were plenty as blackberries. It being New week, all the little boarded resources of the children, both money and ingenuity, were in beisk requisition ...