... kind : the tale of the Pioneer's Cottage, though somewhat dawdlingly treated, is original, graphic, and mildly tragic; Blackberry Farm (describing a site which Nature reclaims as her own) is naive and amusing. The fable about the narrator's Pegasus ...

... of Mr. Mason is very apparent, especially in the odd, effective, but not true use of filmy white, in Mr. W. S. Coleman's Blackberry Gatherers. Mr. J. F. Skill's works are very careful and nice, especially Exterior of a Mill, Brittany (No. 53). Mr. W. S ...

... Mr. Stephens' Blackberry Picking, well carved as it is, may be qnoted as another example of what is to deprecated. What does it mean? Here is a pretty, but absurd young lady, enzisha. bile, supposed to have been picking blackberries! The truth is, the ...

... remembered (in one of the lucid intervals) that the month which is not too late for nightingales is a trifle early for ripe blackberries. While nature does these things, man and woman become creatures of clinging lips, gleamiling ripe shoulders, and veils ...

... warning to the careless swimmer we may mention Medusa and her Locks, a story of the poisonous Cyanea, capillata, and a Blackberry Bush in Autumn, as a pleasant sketch of one of these common objects of the hedgerow, from which so much may be learnt had ...

... P ii'i. (in one of the lucid intervals) that the month which is not t ?? PVC , nightingales is a trifle early for ripe blackberries. Wh\ile n:ilx itO l . things, man and wvomnan become creatures of clingin, lips, gici nda shoulders, and veils of rippling ...

... 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 ...

... unbecoming, tilted over the eyebrows, so that the wearer can see nothing above her boot tips, and trimmed with cherries or blackberries hanging feebly downwards, or, worse still, woollen lumps which resemble nothing in nature. A becoming hat or bonnet of ...

... brims are much worn. A very pretty trimming for them consists of a black velvet bow and ends to fasten a wreath of ivy, blackberry blossom, and fruit. Wild flowers and fruit are much used for trimming straw hats and bonnets. The cavalier- shape hat in ...

... observation, but it renders a confirmed habit more and more easy of performance. Plots of a sort are to be found thick as blackberries in the odd or terrible incidents of the life that surrounds ,us. Now that a certain methodical fluency has been attained ...

... observation, but it renders a confirmed habit more and more easy of performance. Plots of a sort are to be found thick as blackberries in the odd or terrible incidents of the life that surrounds us. Now that a certain methodical fluency has been attained ...

... trees, &c., until she is as healthy and brown and active as any mother might desire. Their last exploit included a day's blackberry bunting, an expedition to a neighbouring fair, and a misadventure after- wards in consequence of assisting themselves on ...