... want of the wherewithal, and we have in its place innumerable attempts at eisteddfodau, where bards are as plentiful as blackberries, and adjudicators as numerous as sparrows on the housa-tops, while com- petitors are like the sand on the sea shore—countless ...

... a similar offence, and was mulcted in a like penalty. MILDNESS OF TUB SEASON.—On Monday several bunches of nearly ripe blackberries were plucked at Gorseinon Farm. by a Mr Fry, of Swansea. ADULTERATED MILK.—Mary Price was summoned for soiling adulterated ...

... children of the Union Workhouse were treated to a day's outing in the Penllergare Woods, for the purpose of nutting and blackberrying. With characteristic kindness Mr Llew- ellyn had preserved a portion of the woods for the purpose of enabling the juveniles ...

... that Plevna must fall—that it was about to be sur- rendered, and kindred telegraphic sensations, have been as thick as blackberries. Plevna, however, continues in the hands of the Turks, and if could believe a telegram from the Standard's cor- respondent ...

... Another most charming one is of pale green silk, with cherubs painted on in delicate fiesh-tints, hov- ering over a spray of blackberries and leaves, which are worked in siiks a ruche of lace edges this. A very effective one is of ruby satin, with crossed sprays ...

... Cardiff, and Swansea. An- *Jier fea.ure is the bountiful cro;> of clergymen, °Ctors, and lawyers—the former being as thick & blackberries, and, like them, found in high- *aJs and byeways; not, however, in solitude, lI:t in tLe con-parry of young m ideus or ...

... palace in Paris, an immense chateau in the country; her dinner parties were famous, and princes and dukes were as common as blackberries at the table of this papcujeuse, to see her residences, cards were necessary, and her stables were veritable drawing-rooms ...

... and willing to set the table in a roar. He had jt pleasant word for every one, the garcon flung compliments about like blackberries among the ladies, and at the same time plied the soup-ladle and the car- ving-knife with a dexterity which I never saw ...

... Stephens. In one a young damsel is attempting to extract from her plump hand a thorn which an ungrateful blackberry bramble had imbedded. The blackberries, in white plaster, lie at her feet. A. B. Joy is the sculptor of several beautiful busts. It is always ...

... with the names of archbishops, bishops, peers, and Cabinet ministers, while members of Parliament were as plentiful as blackberries; but there ...

... (wife of the Editor of Fraser's Magazine), and to the flower pieces of Miss Angell. Mrs Norman has a pretty little spray of blackberries, and her sister, Miss Elizabeth Eastlake, has a capital sketch of A Dartmoor Boy. I have spoken above of the depression ...

... on will easily fiud someone to replace me. on, Lord, yes, exclaimed Mr Piper, testily. Governesses are as plentiful as blackberries. Old and n;ly, most of 'em--the elos'erer they arc the uglier. And bony. I filld that learning generally runs into bone ...