... (hear, hear). His steam engines, again, were considered most ridiculous, but now steam engines on farms were as common blackberries. Formerly there was a strong belief in that locality that deep cultivation was injurious, but there had been a great change ...

... (Hear, hear.) Ms steam-engines, again, were ,considered most ridiculous, hut now steam-engines on law were ne com.non as blackberries. Formerly there was a strong belief in that locality that deep cultivation was injurious, but there had been a great 'change ...

... they choose. Choice bits of scandal in high life now increase and multiply, and remarkable incidents are plentiful as blackberries. You must have an unbounded capacity of belief to swallow and digest all the marvels you hear of —you will fare pretty ...

... notice, with view to prevent trespassing, had appeared in the papers. The defendant at first said that was simply gathering blackberries, and doing no damage whatever; then denied having been in the coppice on the day named, and contradicted what the witness ...

... Potatoes, Bd. to lOd. Apples, Bd. to 12d. per peck. Apricots, 2s. per dozen. Grapes, 6d. per lb. Hazel nuts, Is. 4d. per peck. Blackberries, Id. per quart. Eggs, Id. each. Stewing pears Is. per peck. Gherkins, 10 to for 6d. Geese, 4s to ss. 6d. each. Turkeys ...

... spring and summer. The most conspi- of these are the red hips of the wild rose ; the dark purple bunches of the luxuriant blackberry ; the brilliant scarlet and green berries of the nightshade; the wintry-looking fruit of the hawthorn ; the blue sloes. ...

... walking along the road, some distance from the house, she met Rogers and Clayton, two of the prisoners, picking the hedge for blackberries, as she thought. One of them asked her what time it was, and she replied very nearly two o'clock. She passed on; and ...

... he, Randall. Perry, and two other boys, went to Tettenhall (two miles from Wolverhampton), about eleven clock. They got blackberries, afterwards helped a woman to get l>enrfi, and ...

... discussion on tbe relative merits of Hornsey, Finchley, Wanstead, Kpping, and Wood- ford, as suitable places of resort for blackberry gathering. At last September came, and the first jaunt took place. We took our dinners with ns in oar bags, though many ...

... his burial! . . . Blackberries have been selling at higher prices in Liverpool than damsons. So says a contemporary; and a housewife at our elbow makes the same report of our own locality—the prices per quart being, for blackberries 5d., for damsons 4d ...

... temporarily sea-sick, and then he becomes permanently sick of the sea. The truth is, Willie soon discovers reasons plentiful as blackberries for thinking less highly of sailors than people do on shore. We talk of the jolly Jack Tar, and our gallant blue jackets ...

... sounds strange in our ears. We think there must be magic in mentiiiial. We forget, that in England they are :as plentiful as blackberries, or butcher's carts, or pigs in a farm pod, or anything else novel to our sun-buriit experience. Our jolly Aldermen and ...