... charged him with poaching, which he denied, and said he was picking blackberries.—Mr. Trchaue, for the defence, callod two young men, who stated that Mr. Toter was outy picking blackberries.—The defendant was convicted, and fined 2Us. including costa. Thomas ...

... but then it was in the old days of a flippant House of Commons led by a flippant leader, when jokes were as plenty as blackberries, and the First Minister of the Crown regarded the first question of the day chiefly as a joke. Bat now we have got an ...

... scourity and honesty. Bat it is one thing to resolve to insure ; it is another to select &company. Agents are as plentiful as blackberries in the autumn, and companies, ranging from the most reliable to the most dishonest, Coarish on all sides. To insure in ...

... coasequently, they could never cultivate their hedge-aides properly, but were forced to be content with sloes, and hips, and blackberries, and anything else that came handy and by the grace of nature—never able to raise a bushel of grain for harvest time, or ...