... all the afternoon, and the little contrary witch knew it.) Then there was rare sport in gathering berries—more especially blackberries. Purchased fruit never had the same delicious flavour of that which was plucked wild, fresh, and sweet from the bushes ...

... were mine, With all that follows in its train, would with gratitude resign, To dream that dream of love again. EMMA’S BLACKBERRYING. Vlat a mellow, golden August day it was ! Just such one as makes us involuntarily step aside from crush ihe worm in our ...

... to match this multitude of spinsters withering on the virgin thorn.-. Bachelors n»le • than apinslats, are plentiful as blackberries in la belle France, but, alas! bach*, lorshtp has no terrors for them, and ihey cling to if it were, indeed, slate of single ...

... carriage. A cold chill came over me—had he been idiotic enough to tell her/ If my chance was gone! * We were b ...

... that ho rai-ei money with a lever. Pot your money iuto box if you like, but not Into dice-box. To make blackberry jam—Put twenty-four blackberries into goose quill. • I think I have seen yon before, sir arc you not Owen Smith ?’ • Ob, yes, owin’ Smith ...

... innovation—a revolution got up to please the rabble and strike “ the existing order of things”—would have been as plenti ful as blackberries. Smart leader writers and jocular caricaturists would have been pulled well together in this matter, shaking hands in the ...

... under Major Hayes ;after infinite difficultysealing precipices and forcing their way through dense thickets of laurel and blackberry bushes, hail been halted in a ravine in front of the centre of the rebel's right wing, and they were afterwards supported ...

... ins:de, was a hedge of v rg us, and on the outside another hedge of climbing and intertwining wild roses, tgLantine, and blackberry vines. An iron gate, very rusty and dilapidated, admitted us to the cram grown walk that led between two rows of black oak-tree ...

... rate place, and I'm a lurty dog to/get it,' said the husband rather shottly. You speak as though situations were as IVA as blackberries. I guess it would be a long day before your father or John would do any thing for me. I went in and asked the old fellow ...

... the morning was an antidote against all kinds of poison. Its juice, injected into the veins, would have a similar effect. Blackberries, when perfect ripe were eaten the Romans, and the Greeks were considered preventive ot gout.— Ibid. Home Made Spimts.—The ...

... none of his opponents could answer. But though they could not answer they could vote ; and if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, one vote could not outweigh them all at the board. When we say that the anti-education party at the board did not answer ...

... a folded paper, which very busy lifting little Mary out. he placed in her hands. She glided up to the old “Set on them blackberries, Hannah !” said he to- man who had been gazing out of window in a sort wards the close of their evening meal, the little ...