... Great things were sttempted, but little or nothing was done. Promises of great achievement were rife ai plentiful as blackberries in autumn, whilst corresponding performances were few and scant as grapes on gooseberry bushes ! How such a bad, even wretched ...

... completed in the granting of Commission of the Peace for the borough. We are waiting the men, and here they are as thick as blackberries. We can put our hands upon an embryo Justice of the Peace anywhere when wanted. The difficulty in selection. We are to ...

... Advertiser. Sir, —In his last letter Mr. Stroyan makes up in volubility what he lacks in argument. Words have plentiful blackberries, but look in vain for a tittle of evidence to justify the claim set by the Liberationists of the right to seize and conliscate ...

... Journalists. —It is needless to sa that first-class journalists, in whatever party wo look for them, are not as plentiful as blackberries. If we consider what such man ought to be, we shall be overwhelmed with the multiplicity of his requirements. He must be ...

... Sir Walter S ott, by Thomas Hsghes, in Tom Brown, and *y a great many other British writers of recognisec position. ' * Blackberry, to which Mr. Bartlett says that this term universally used in the United 8 ates for the English brambleberry, has been ...