... Catholic Chapel. —Some thirty years ago a Catholic in Mossley was a rara avis in terns ; but now they are as plentiful as blackberries, in a favourite summer, like the present. They were then considered theological monstrosities, not to be tolerated ; they ...

... halfpence. He also gave Fanny a halfpenny, and her sister a halfpenny. He then went with them up the Hollow, and picked some blackberries for them. He afterwards told Lizzie and witness to go home and spend their money, and then lifted Fanny up in his arms ...

... small Sehmie*, were monstrous stringency, even such .rfences as stealing orange, and oranges Jamaica wore plentiful as blackberries. He had seen a hedge off orange trees a mile and half long. A special remedy Jrr compensation for trespass by stock and ...

... public to qualified from tee unqualified. They manage these things better in America, where lady doctors are as plentiful blackberries. On Saturday last, great consternation reigned in the North Riding Chamber of Agriculture, at Malton, caused by a report ...

... privet, buckthorn, elderberries, which furnish the farmer with cordial cup on bis return from market on a winter's eve, and blackberries, reminding us of the babes in the wood. The hedgerows are brightened also with a profusion of scarlet berries, of hips ...

... beautiful; but walking for a month with bitter rain for half the time between hedges, even when filled with wild flowers and blackberries, is not to a cultivated mind a permanently interesting occupation. In most counties of England a traveller might, for all ...

... beautiful; but walking for a month with bitter rain for half the time between hedges, even when filled with wild flowers and blackberries, is not to a cultivated mind a permanently interesting occupation. In most counties of England a traveller might, for all ...

... afterwards threw on the fcomid seeing him approach.—The boys admitted being in the field, but said they were gathering blackberries, and did not to steal turnips.—On the*-* parents momising to pay the costs of the proceedings, the bora were li berated ...

... examples : View in Surrey, with cattle and pond; Stormy Kunsot; Failing Timber ; Cottages, with water in foreground and Blackberry Gatherers; 255 guineas (Fuller and others). Copley Fielding ; Dover Cliffs; from the Bicknell collection. I- llswater and ...

... wares in; also, arithuictick, the casting of accounts.” Has any one searched this writer for proverbs ? They are as plenty blackberries” in his pages; take three of eight under one word :—“Fooles passe for wise men while they silent are. Better no words than ...

... the shoulder blade.—Defendant said he only took the horse to fetch a few turnips.—Barlow: It had been rubbed over with blackberries to make the wounds look the same colour as the horse, and he was beating it fearfully.—Fined 12s. including costs. EleLry ...

... clothed with butter-cups daisies. Give me those rosy-cheeked, dimpled fac® children, who roamed the fields in quest of blackberries, and wild flowers, after Owd Mally Nield had dismissed them from her back square academy, instead of those pale, sickly-faced ...