... their story might true enough, that somebody said they was good to cat, and they picked a few”—much they would have picked blackberries. eight years of ago the stomach in sharper than the conscience, sense eating and drinking more practical than , the know ...

... immorality, but simply ask for the evidence that we are worse than our forefathers. Humbugs and cheats may be thick as blackberries, but were they not quite as thick in the days of Henry the Eighth and of Prime Minister Walpole? If not, history sadly ...

... proceedings in regard to him that would be “out” at any price, and at the close offers of 600 to 100 were “plentiful as blackberries” in autumn. Tho doings in reference to Mr Merry’s colt have all along been of a most extraordinaiy character, and I can ...

... the violets whispered, “Come and play!” , That cool, earthy smell which came from the hedges when, as boys, we went a-blackberrying after a shower, filled the market. There were ' the hyacinths with their fragrant bells, the pretty i cyclamens, and their ...

... merits deserved. The authorities did well, however, secure its delivery, for good lectures are no means as plentiful as blackberries, even at so-called literary institutions, where anything that is considered 14 dry is listened to with soarcely ooncealed ...

... palisadings of a park? Epping Forest is being cut up and enclosed, so that very little of it can be expected to remain for the blackberry hunters of a decade hence. Even Blackheath is gradually dwindling, in addition to the constant pillage of its turf and ...

... young lady writing to us from Westport, Co. Mayo, the other day, says that during the last week of March she plucked a wild blackberry blossom from an adjourning hedg,row in the vicinity of the town. SCIENCE AND ART. —A striking instance of the immense value ...