... greengrocers and retailed at a high price. Later the blackberries ripen and form his third great crop; the quantity he brings in to the towns is astonishing, and still there is always a customer. The blackberry harvest lasts for several weeks, as the berries ...

... the other. As we drew near the village, groups of children returning from the Ecole Communale interrupt their raid on the blackberry bushes, (though covered with dust, the fruit to them is just as sweet), to look slily at us, and give us a passing bon ...

... that ma branches of lhbonr were quite at a standstill, In Lon ger , and the City in particular, link-boys werea plentif as blackberries in autumn. 3n Lotden-bridge tbont six p.m, the scene swea something exaording,, and reminded cne of the Roman asraival ...

... four-anna pieces, and so strong is the demand, that three of these are worth a rupee. British army buttons are as common as blackberries. Even corkscrews are offered for sale in Ta-chienlu, although no one can explain their use. The presence of such miscellaneous ...

... BY AN INHABITANT OF THf INVADED DISTRICT ENGLISH lanes in the month of September have usually a closer acquaintance with blackberries and hazel nuts than with troops of cavalry and regiments of the line; and English commons and heaths are more familiar ...

... removed,' unknown, and whose qualifications have for a generation or two ceased to exist, still encumber. the register in blackberry profusion. Now it is these dead and unknown entities who invsriably assert themselves on the day of election. These ...

... hedge, and were visited by the humble-bees; the broad-leaved burdock flowered by the gateways; and on the brambles the blackberries were formed, though green. The hazel-nuts remained soft and have not yet hardened; on the oaks the round green galls are ...

... senators wis- dom ? Verily, we trow not. A CONTRAST. To some persons in this happy land pounds are as plentiful as blackberries 6-i blackberry- bushes ; to others, as scarce as strawberries at Christmas. We read every day of ladies whose names are familiar ...

... Gillies returning with Deer; Mr. Nico's humorous Fisher's Knot and On the Look-out a and Mr. Mason's tender and poetic Blackberry Gathering. The dexterous execution of Mr. Halswelle's Contadino in St. Peter's, Rome, does not compensate for the work's ...

... whereon Mgr. Donnet remarked, Make use of your opportunities, my friend. The hedges on either side of us are filled with blackberries; if ie set to work together I will be bound we gather enough to pay you two days' dinners; and it seems that they did ...

... Republic held in so many of our towns since its proclama- tion? Why, the evidences of such a change are as plentiful as blackberries,' and only those who pur- posely olose their ey es and ears can fail to see and under- stand them. Such a change may not ...

... serpent in given instead of the mor, whole- some food of the fish. We have Lulnberlets ehurchea, parsons are as plentiful as blackberries, and hundreds of city miwsionajies and scripfnre- readers are paid to distribate pious tracts and ex- pound the Biole to ...