... conten-i against a great deal in his district, for. the infamous COpperheads, Syinpathisers with the South, were us thick as blackberries, and he often felt as if he would like thrashing a man to 1ef a Christian virtue, that he might have the privleg. of digging ...

... was produced, and recognised at once by the mayor and sorneother of the magistrates,wholmewtheoriginal. Sketches of the blackberry and sundry plants, remiarkably well drawn, were, also shown to the bench, who were unanimous in their expressions of regret ...

... some distinguished mark of favour. There are things too common with us for honour and reward. Brave men are as abundant as blackberries, and duty is an absolute drug, it therefore becomes necessary to select objects of favour clear of these vulgar claims ...

... too near t and too common to be worthy of notice.' It is an age of C Bibles in penny numbers; and you must not pluck a p blackberry from the roadside hedge; for does not the SI sacred volume prohibit all manner of work upon the la Lord's day; but you ...

... body of a boy named James Mort, the son of Thomas Mort, farmer, Parr. It appeared that the poor little fellow went out blackberrying in the fields near to his father's house between three and four in the afternoon, and -when next seen he was floating ...

... tOray., Since the establishment of railways they had seen nobles, and honourables, and right honour. nbles as thick as blackberries amongst them, coming down to open Mechanics' Institutions and other such societies; and, unfortunately, a great number ...

... than, ?? of our guido books, we became aware of being in a largo and counlercial town, where wealth was as plentifll as blackberries. By our books we learned that we mist not with our limited time attempt to see mole than few of the more important Abeets ...

... prisoner in Bedford gaol. Up hill, through th, some Devonshire lanes, in one of which a sturdy-legged of girl was gathering blackberries. Of course I spoke fr to her, and was answered in a dialect broader even than we the Dorsetshire. I had better not attempt ...

... hur~sbed in random luxuriance, and which Was -also fre- Oth ud quont in the neighbouring hedges. The bramible, or 6th Ite blackberry family (Rusbus), bad also several representa- ver tives: Te wood straberry (FIragaria ve.5ca) was abtin- 8utt ld dant. It ...

... climb after it, a feat not at all cal- culated to make you happy if you are wearing knicker- bockers, and there are any blackberry plants in the fence. A sharp walk of a mile brought me to the intelligent man, whose kindness had saved me from a weary ...

... After walking two or three miles down the muddy, but very beautiful, lane, occasionally stopping to gather a few ripe blackberries, or to inhale the perfume of some little wild flower, a still narrower lane led away sol thwards. A small sign-board informed ...

... that ripe blackberries are now frequently to be found in the hedge-rows in this part of Devonshire and the borders X of Somerset. On the last day of the old year a youth I called Nelder, of this town, picked a very fine bunch of . ripe blackberries on Exeter-hill ...