... lost its ordinary animation from positive inanition. On the contrary, theme' for discussion have sprung up as thick as blackberries, but they have proved so light and transient in their character, a, to have left no permanent impression behind. Continental ...

... What is an Eisteddfod/ Although Eisteddfods, or more properly speaking Eistadfodar, have, in Wales, become as thick as blackberries, this question is often asked by the English reader. In brief, then, the Eisteddfod is an institution peculiarly Welsh ...

... taking of them would injurious; [Sir W.Jardine observed that some districts the blue cocks are called blackberry fish, because they come when blackberries abound] ; did not think the close time could be better than present; believed that the marks on the ...

... advances since the discovery of the electric telegraph and the establishment of railways. A great demand has lately arisen for blackberry wine. It is shipped great quantities to India, being a most valuable remedy lor chronic dysentery. The census of Canada ...

... ventured to inquire to the other impediment. “My wife,” was the rascal's reply. Coal.—ln Lancashire, coal trucks are as thick blackberries. Coal—coal-coal meets the eye wherever the eye peeps—blazing awav at the pit’s mouth, half-a-ton at time, say ton while ...

... their heads. A New Orleans paper of last January boasted that gold was RS plentiful there as blackberries. The editor forgot to tell how abundant blackberries are in New Orleans in midwinter. IMPARTIALITY.— This is a very impartial country fol justice ...

... Marriage.—ln by-gone years, before the gold-fields were overrun by the rush of emiLTanU, and when gold-boles were plentiful blackberries, party two or three msu having worked out a good claim, which had yielded, say 500 L man, woulu forward their gold the ...

... —ln by-goise yews. before the gold-fields were overran by the rush of emigrants, and whim gold-holes were as plentiful as blackberries, a party of two or three having worked out a good claim, which had yielded, say a man, would forward their gold to the ...

... week, Sweet and Tripp were playing in a lane at Pill. The prisoner came up to them, took them to a field, gathered some blackberries for thew, and while Tiipp was at a distance, behaved indecently towards S eet, cffering her a penny. On the folleW lug ...

... Is another li•tle Desk.. On Saturday week we were net In a lane. I saw the primmer there. He took se de we the tietd 0 blackberrie.. Ile pick , d for me. (lb. child here d-eor.bid , certain taken by thy primmer.] Ile dad he would me a penny. I stenciling ...

... recently took his little boy. aged fotjr, with him io. cora-fleld for a ride, and od he set him down, and left him gathering blackberries. In about five minutes after the father returned, and found bis son hanging on a gate with his head between the bare, and ...

... told of Moccas, in Hereford.hire It takes us long way back, the fifth century, when kings were almost plentiful in England blackberries At that time one Pepiau was king Arehenfield. which extended beyond the limits of what it now called Here! fordslure ; ...