... 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 a spot where he was pawing ...

... It appears the deceased, who had been subject to fits for some time, left home on Saturday for the purpose ot gathering blackberries, when, it is supposed, he must have been suddenly seized with fit, and, consequently, being unable call for assistance ...

... following toast was given by one of them at public dinner: —“ The ladies —sweet- in the garden of life. Life is a field of blackberry bushes. Mean people squat down and pick the fruit, no matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud and perpendicular ...

... “Little Jack,” in the large room of the Stalybridge Mechanics’ Institution few weeks ago. Little Jack is out gathering blackberries on a sunny autumn day. He pauses in his occupation to gaze upon the streaming sunshine, and watch the birds fly to and ...