... brightness over everything. It is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude. A preserved temper is a good preserver. Blackberry plc-nlc parties hare lately been very fashionable. The young ladies to pick berries, and the young gentlemen pick thorns ...

... stream of has beén Bow- ge ing to him through the eyes. ‘There are eyes which pot 8 ive no more admission into them than blackberries ; rds others are liquid and deep wells that men might fall in- diy to; and others are oppressed and devouring, and take ...

... religiously observed as in Dublin, and for the last three weeks balls, concerts, soirees, and reunions have been as plentiful blackberries on the green hill sides or in the shady glens of auld Scotland. Christmas day itself is the only one of the season that ...

... of Mrs OUphant's Life of Edward Irving. SogrecTiD Murder and Mutilation.—On Thursday week, some children were gathering blackberries the edge of ditch which separates two ferms on the Low Levels, in very lonely spot, they saw object which caused them call ...

... grape, the orange, the pomegranate, the fig, and other equally pleasant and nourishing productions— not the wild haws and blackberries which, even in Nature's most prodigal humour, would be all that would fall to the lot any poor fellow who should take fancy ...

... during that day nor the one following, but no attention had bgeu paid that fact. the third day children, who were pickiug blackberries near the' village, were attracted by the unusual movements dog which accompanied them, to spot where he was pawing the ...

... seen with a few hairs on his chin or upper lip was at once ¢ get down™ as a foreigner, but now beards are as plentiful as blackberries on the faces of cannie Scotsmen. On 'Change in Glasgow, for example, many of the principal leading merchants may be seen ...

... meditated. Alter getting John Du»v;s make an engagement to with in the afternoon Duffryn Wood,, for the purpose of picking blackberries, one o'clock I went to borrow ihe hatchet, I carried it the blacksmith's shop hid it outside under bush, where it retnaiued ...

... am thurrowly marrid, and intend remaneso.' Dinner Long Branch ' iz served at 2 o'clock; opens with Boup, and shuts with blackberries.' The amusements are crabbing and bathing. Of the first, Mr Billings observes : 'Yesterday I went out krabbing. and ketched ...

... promises fairly be the condition o' the Port, for on a' sides petralinm casks, fu' o' the iuflamable liquor, are plentiful as blackberries, and are landed, shipped, or trucked wi' as little thocht or care if they were bars o' pig iron. There 'ill be bonnie bleeze ...

... column. Are there any Admirable Crichtons now-a-days ?— any universal scholars We suspect they are not as plentiful as blackberries they are not so common now as in days of yore, when the triviam and quatrivium were all the go, and when it was no superhuman ...

... fairly be the condition o' the i Port, for .1' sides pctralinm casks, fu' o' the iuflam! able liquor, are as plentiful as blackberries, and are j landed, shipped, trucked wi' as little thocht or care jas if thev were bars o' pig iron. There 'ill bonnie bleeze ...