... THE BLACKBERRY. The blackberry bush—what a cad it is because it happens to be common in the vegetable world! If it were an exotic, growing here and there, and only growing at all when you nursed it, made much of it, manured it, and all the rest, then ...

... appeared for the complainant and Mr. Homer for the defendant. —The defendant wee gathering blackberries on complainant's land. Complainant claimed the blackberries, defendant refused to give them to him. Complainant then upset defendant's basket, and defendant ...

... Alas! that the rail Should have given way then, The ghost was approaching The bravest of men, Ford tumbled him into that blackberry bed! There to struggle with fear, And battle with thorns, Expecting each moment A ride on the horns Of that terrible being ...

... substance, and are as safe as they are.efficacions. AN Irishmsa once asked if he hal ever seen a red blackberry. To be I have, said Psi; blackberries are red when they are green. I _ I TOPPER'S QUININE AND IRON TONIC supplies T this want. It combines ...

... small birds, chaffinches, linnets, bramblings, &c., brit the bullfinch. he remarks, is scarce, owing to the failure of the blackberry, their favourite food. In This neighbourhood I have noticed a marked increase in the numbers of the - chaffinches and linnets ...

... in request for building purposes, owing to their being easily worked, and of t great durability. Wild fruits consist of blackberry and dewberrysomething like but much larger than our blackberrywhich in the summer form the largest portion of negro's food ...

... Netherton, and Ann Briscoe (7), the daughter of a shoemaker, lodging at the same house, went to Saltwell's Coppice to gather blackberries. After being away a considerable time they returned home to tea, and partook of the meal. The boy was then sent on an errand ...

... an adventurous tumbrel axle-deep In mingled water and stiff clay mod. How the horses need to labour on, the dog-rise and blackberry-bulk boughs vexing their eyes and scratching their flanks, and how deep the knees need to go down into the ruts and pools ...

... the pointsman, and a man named Cope, saw the woman and children walking along the canal bank. The children were gathering blackberries at the time, and the men heard the woman talking to her children. Later on the three sat down on the towing path, and this ...

... valleys, commencing generally near the streams—as many a fisherman knows; the berries of the hedgerows are brightening ; blackberries and mushrooms are being gathered by children and idlers; orchards are bending beneath their load of fruit. All these are ...

... jumped, apparently on to the box and—at this juncture the rail on which I was sitting gave way and precipitated me into some blackberry bushes. When I gat up again, I could hear a vehicle going off at a tremendously rapid rate. I hurried down to the well, ...

... mit was, in a certain sense, an intruder. It is only in modern times that lady authoresses have become as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, and have flooded the world with their production's, many of which are undoubtedly very good, but the majority ...