... in question tbe two children were walking across the fields, when the prisoner saw ihem and proffered to get them some blackberries and hitcbbacks. Upon leaving the field he lifted one of the girls over the style, and offered them a penny to allow him ...

... scenery used on the occasion was a clever drop- I scene, painted by Mr Schetky, representing a view of the | , Castle and Blackberry Hill. The performances com- menced at nine o'clock, and His Grace the Duke of liutland a private band played in the intervals ...

... 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 ...

... Many asked much for week's accommodation as all their furniture is worth; but alas, empty beds have been plentiful as blackberries in late autumn. The high-flown notions formed show how little sober and rational judgment there Is amongst the great mass ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... school, In their leafy retreat, The wild birds sit listening the drops round them beat; And the boy crouchaa cloae to the blackberry wall The swallows alone take th« storm their wing, And, taunting tit* tree-sheltered labourers, sing. Like pebbles the rain ...

... family, uif I bad teen born and bred among tfaaa. I found that I had come fa a critical tone, when secrete were plenty blackberries. It bring How Tear’s week, all th* BtU* hoarded resources of too children, both money aad ingenuity, were fa brisk requisition ...

... T. Hickman. Kitchen ditto, D. Middleton. Pears, W. Tarry. Plums, widow Smith. Premium for apples, W. Owen. Ditto, for blackberries, W. Shaw, J. Johnson. Red cabbages, F. Claridge, T. Smith. Carrots, T. Tilley, C. Adams. Red celery, R. Bulliman, T. Hickman ...

... trembles as tbe wind comes whistling up, And slips with gentle force from out its perfect moulded cup. The hedge is thick with blackberries, and little children know The lanes where they are plentiful and where the finest grow ■. They cull the sweet and simple ...

... patriotic temper so wrong-headed and sturdy a gladiator as Mr. Bright, we could adduce them till they became as plentiful as blackberries. But it is needless. Mr. Bright is pleased to appear as if he did not know why his countrymen are fighting. But he not ...

... occasions to join the ?? forlorn hope, — and he afterwards served on many a battle-field when bullets were as plentiful as blackberries, with credit to himself and to his country ; and we believe the family of a nobleman holding high rank in this conntry ...