... his bank book. opening it he displayed page after page, where two shillings and six- pence entries were as numerous as blackberries in autumn, turning over a few pages he said 2s. 6d. a week for the 1st year is £ 6 10d., and this 2s. 6d. per week for ...

... dark ages than to the 19th century; and he is evidently not aware that copies of the Fathers are nearly as plentiful as blackberries, and may be had, at prices vary- ing from four to ten shillings a volume, any day of the week. Foreign editions of them ...

... grossest articles —even on iron. In NewYoik the number of men who acorn to labour in Pennsylvania make stores as plentiful as blackberries. Almost the only coal company of hundreds in the district, which pays their men in cash, is in Car- bondale; they have ...

... dint. The other day, leaving his work with a wet shirt, after a vigorous application to the wash tub, he must needs go a blackberrying, but too many had been before him. He succeeded in getting materials for his favourite pie, after a Inng- walk, and it ...

... them, whether as town councillors, aldermen, magistrates, or mayors. The can- didates certainly are not like Shakspeare's blackberries; the annual or biennial iippcal for some, the constant badgering for others, render the task disagreeable, and so we get ...

... repeat—for there we are beyond the outermost limits of those trowsered genus who infest the bushes and play havoc amongst the blackberries in autumn a.:d in a land where men and women like to do little as possible, and that little the most profitablp that can ...

... with trowsers Patched, and jacket made from one His sire had worn. At early dawn Lagging behind to pluck the flowers, and Blackberries pick, till, roused at Length, by threat, or oath, he ambles On, and all the day works in the pit Amid rude scenes, and ...