... THE PoRcii.-Here come those ragged imps of fortune, Which now three days I've noted prowl the city. When last I saw them, blackberries were ripe, And they, slow coasting every wealthy hedge, Besmirched their faces with the berries' blood, The bushes made ...

... Croctises are in bloom in this neigsbourbood, and violets (not grown in thc open, however) are nearly 'as plentiful as blackberries. Last night the members of the VolunteerArtillery Corps supped together at the Crown Hotel. There was a large gathering ...

... districts of Ohio ju are suffering in the same way. o1 aL Financial schemes still come before Congress, Ci I plenty as blackberries, but as there is no bn chance that any one of them will pass in the ' Bshape in -which it is presented, I spare you ti ...

... somewhat in the predicament of Falstaff when pressed by Prince Hal on the robbery question-('the reasoas were asplenity as blackberries, but he would not give one upon compulsion. Let the reader mark the spirit of what ?? are not sure but this is the best ...

... last, a twig bearing a couple of ripe blackberries. The unseasonable production vegetated in the neigh- bourhood of that village-a locality proverbial for early vegetation; however, the circumstance of ripe blackberries being plucked from the hedge-rows in ...

... for ten harvest hands, did a two weeks' wash- ing and the milking, made a calico dress, praotised her music lesson, went blackberrying, gathered a gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concirt, and walked home again before bed-time. Years ago ...

... has not been so full of people for years, we should say. Tin cane, milking pails, shoes, cakes, &c. were as thicit as blackberries in autumn, to say noth- ing of the two shows; and a spanking business wits done, we understand, in each and every department ...

... suspended yonder; one man receives a riband; another is dismissed from his post-office; appeals and scandals are as plenty as blackberries; and the dangerous classes are so far from thinking scorn of vio- I lence, under its soothing influences, that the Empire ...

... nities will be duly seen to, espoiay as the grouse are on the whole plentiful. Wea wishthesports- lmen grouse as thick as blackberries, and such pleasures in the pursuit as may recompense them r for an outlay which, after all, is not perhaps ex- icessime ...

... resided at Bishop's. gate-parade, New-port. On the day in question, she had been picking blackberries, and met the prisoner, wbo asked her how she sohl her blackberries. She seid tfireepence a ) quart. and he said he would have a quart, and that lie lived ...

... plough-horses, the next he is at dung-cart, and the third minding birds or crow- keeping, which means birds'-nesting, or blackberry- hunting, or anything else, while the master is out of sight. The apprenticeship which should form port of the technical ...

... of it was visible when she saw it first; but it had since been pushed in out of sight. Davi(s said that it was not in a blackberry bush. Mr Greenway said that D ivies h:11 been kcut watching the nlace since last Monday ji j. 1 J week and yesterday week ...