... y could never cultivate their hedgesides properly, but were forced to be content with sloes and hips, and pig-nuts and blackberries, and anything else that came handy and by the grace of nature; never able to raise a bushel of grain for harvest-time, ...

... to which hops are subject, and if not carefully picked out, will spoil the poor man's beer. Fenberry, another name for blackberry, gathered ripe in September and October. Fen Flower (fenochioj, vulgarly called the Devil's bush ; itjj grows in boggy lands ...

... tree in his garden. aged res It appears that two [rish Coun pectively twelve and ten years, went into the try to gather blackberries, They wandered as far as arley Wig orn, where the prisoner resides, and began Gatheringbla the me. from a hedge which separated ...

... narrative which follows has been communicated to us:— *Two little children, aged respectively nine and eleven, were looking for blackberries in Hsndsworth wood yesterday (Thursday), whin the younger (a little girl) was suddenly bitten in iha leg bv snake (supposed ...

... was badly torn by a vicious pet sow, in field at Castleconnell, on Sunday week. The poor child was employed in picking blackberries when seized by the wicked brute, by which she was dragged to the ground, and mangled in various parts of the body. Adv ...

... his lordship's judicious patronage of Irish manufacture will stop short of the wines. But whether it be all claret or all blackberry, it will be a comfort to freeborn Irishmen to know that even-handed justice been administered. When the coronation of hat ...

... no way convertible into honest political capital. Even had Lord Carlisle bivouacked with his interesting staff under the blackberries of that inhospitable road, or passed the night, like King Lear and bis melancholy train, in a hovel on a heath, it would ...

... lassitude becomes mortal. Those grim Christians who would lain save souls, but vastly prefer half-crowns, are plentiful as blackberries in every novel, but we are bold assert that our readers have never met a real specimen the race. There is not to be found ...

... again, like so many Hotspurs, the morning after the play, fresh and whole in skin, without a scratch on them, barring the blackberries by the way side on their line march. Cork has been glorified by the landing of this sacred legion on her quays; and a Cork ...

... day, nor the one following, but no attention had been paid to that fact. On the third day some children, who were picking blackberries near the village, were attracted by the unusual movements of a dog which accompanied them to the spot where he was pawing ...

... beloved country. 44 lie had to contend against a great deal in his district, for the infamous Copperheads were as thick as blackberries, and he ofteu felt as if he would like thrashing man to be a Christian virtue, that might have the privilege digging into ...

... enthusiast and' kissed close, must have been in the state of those of the Children in the Wood after they had eaten their blackberries, or have resembled those of a schoolboy who has been sucking Spanish licorice.—Punch. Match-making is Paris.—The Ami de ...