... want of the wherewithal, and we have in its place innumerable attempts at eisteddfodau, where bards are as plentiful as blackberries, and adjudicators as numerous as sparrows on the housa-tops, while com- petitors are like the sand on the sea shore—countless ...

... Stephens. In one a young damsel is attempting to extract from her plump hand a thorn which an ungrateful blackberry bramble had imbedded. The blackberries, in white plaster, lie at her feet. A. B. Joy is the sculptor of several beautiful busts. It is always ...