... To the Editor of the Chester Courant. Drat Sin,—Letters from the war are now become as thick as blackberries, and 1 send you an extract from one which I have received from a relative, who is attached to a siege train of artillery, and if you think it ...

... blatant friends, egged on by English huzzas ; but, hitherto, all has been “Vox et preeterea nihil.” Promises, plentiful as blackberries which have never ripened into fruit — declarations of assistance, which have hitherto always belied themselves, have followed ...

... have this season visited Southport, to enjoy its salubrious air and the pleasures attendant upon a sea-side residence. Blackberries have been so abundant this autumn in the neighbourhood of Ormskirk, that one person could get about twenty quarts a day ...

... ground till the principal races were over. Divisional generals, bri- gadiers, colonels, and staff-officers were plenty as blackberries, and though the only representative of the fair sex was Mrs. Seacole, who presided over a sorely invested tent full of ...

... work on Friday, the 12th Perry, and two other boys, went to Tattenball (two miles from Wolver- bampton o'clock. They got blackberries, afterw: helped a woman to gathered some elderberries in the about seven and sold to a man in Wolver- which they nine ...

... roused the meadow, They have roam'd the wood, perking nuts and bisekbenies For their pleasant food. With their sets end blackberries, And lumps of brad and cheese, On a mow,' hedge•bank, Now they sit at else. Drinking from the brooklet 'Neath the hawthorn ...