... 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 ...

... beeches at Sovenoaks, the chestnuts and hacels around Lord Darnley's seat. at Cobbamn, and later in ?? season the arbutus, the blackberry, amd the holly, lhave been loaded with fruit and berrie3, so that the trees have been' bending ilider their weight. I hear ...

... 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 ...

... larg numbed. Probably the entomologists are the haopiestpople just now. Judging by the myriads of tothsa'hich swarm on the blackberry blo-sou i ancthe shistles, we should expect that insect life was/abaridant in the midst of this glowing heat, Peihaps, as ...

... cellent personage and s Lubbock or Lammas Day;` l i. then the Telegraph suggests a Blue-bell Day in June d and a ?? Blackberry Day in October; and a Prim- l rose and Violet Day in March, it says, would not be h at all a had idea. It makes no allusion ...

... 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 ...

... thet match, and are afraid she will elbpe:-` Clovelly seeinp lovel. Will Arthllr think Clara's hat exceedingly droll P Blackberries unusually tempting. Cousins of Miunio'El expecled'. Key-the first three letters of the first word, the fitst two of the ...

... 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 ...

... our sandwich case, and enjoy a repast, with ripe, I luscious blackberries as dessert, washed down with the cold, sparkling water of the stream. The sandwich case is soon filled with blackberries, and the journey resumed, along Lindley mill-race, where ferns ...

... such a step, we might soon find them, as good in quality as are those now brought against the Church of England, thick as blackberries on Autumn hedges. Ws protested while the general election was pro- ceeding against its being fought so very much over the ...