... where be saw an old crone stirring black mixture in a huge cauldron, which looked like a compound of blacking, sloes, and blackberries plucked from tb» neighbouring hedges What are you brewing there, good woman. said my friend. The old witch, stirring the ...

... pleasantly undulating country, its narrow roads in winter, knee-deep in mud, with their thick tall fences, in which the blackberries are now ripening; its green lanes which tempt the traveller from the high-road; its pleasant footpaths through cornfields ...

... beloved country. “He had to contend again- 1 a great deal in his district, for the infamous Copperheads wer*» as thick as blackberries, and he often felt if he would like thrashing a man to Christian I'irtue. that he might hare the privilege of digging into ...

... After getting John Davies to make an engagement to go with me in the afternoon to Duffryn Wood for the purpo?e of picking blackberries, at one. o’clock, I went to borrow the hatchet, I carried it to the blacksmith’s shop and hid it outside under hush where ...

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

... ladies bathing dresses. Disraeli wears an alpaca coat and yellow pantaloons^ The Louisville Journal has seen some white blackberries. Desiccated oysters dried in the sun are sold in San Francisco, Kosa Bonheur still longs to visit America, and paint b ...

... thing, under ordinary circumstances, in Austria, titular honour and dignities being plentiful in the market, and cheap blackberries—but that his case be met unexpected difficulties, arising in high quarters, it being expectqd, probably, that he would ...

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

... John would certainly think themselves hardly used if, in this era of liberty, when locomotion is cheap and girls plenty blackberries, they ;hould not be allowed to pick their spouses, at least, among a hundred fair ones, so us to able thoroughly investigate ...

... found guilty, and sentenced to penal servitude for fifteen years. It is expected that there will be the largest crop of blackberries, nuts, and elderberries this season in the South England that has been known for several years past. One of the many rumours ...

... place, 28,000 quarts, and 40,000 quarts were consumed home. This makes crop of 249,358 quarts. It is said that the crop of blackberries will fully as large, but of raspberries there will uot be so large a crop. King Victor Emmanuel, with the object of encouraging ...

... dwarf, 2,000 cherry trees, 1,500 plums, six acres of quinces, 20 acres strawberries, acres of raspberries, eight acres of blackberries, 18 acres grapes. The Sheffield ratteners are coining to the surface again. Last Thursday night two brotftiors named Marshall ...