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LITERARY EXTRACTS

... consequently, could never cultivate their hedge-sides properly, and were forced to be content is with soles, and hips, and blackberries, and anything else that came handy and by the grace of nature ; never able re to raise a bushel of grain for harvest-time ...

NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART IN LEEDS

... you don't believe in all that senltimental nocnscnae about the picture having e ouble meaningr, look at the mutton and blackberries painted by the great modern religions artist. From such thorny entanglements destructive to the snowy fleeces and sharp ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... no lemons, cherries, or currants raised at Fuhchau, and no berries of any kind, as strawberry, gooseberry, whortleberry, blackberry, raspberry, &c. The pine-apple, plantain, cocoa-nut, mango, and a fine variety of pumelo, are brought from Formosa or Amoy ...

FINE ARTS INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT IPSWICH

... Smvthe's picture Mr. Wnr. Cuthbert, for three paintings, ¢Old Stokse Church, PlFayed Rabbit,'and Honeysucklec and Blackberry; Mfr. T. Smith, sketch Of, Soothwcld Breakwater; Mrs. Noy, groups of-flowers, n' 4Por~trait of B. DisraelIg °and ...

THE BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF ART

... may give an illustration of this remark. There is among the chalk-shaded drawings a marvel of painstaking skill-a study of blackberry leaves-by a student about fifteen yearsof age: time occu- pied in its production, sixteen months of the school attend- ance ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... MNIMPORTE.- Host That's right ; help yourself: Guest: Thankee, I haven't tasted such a glass of port since the great blackberry season of 1824. Tu QVoQUE.-Town Belle: The ball was awfully slow last night, the men could think of nothing but their ...