... 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 ...

... 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 ...