... that is the truth-at least, our dinner was off a turnip-field, by the road-side; and we partook of a splendid dessert of blackberries, plucked from the hedges as we preceded on our way. Oh, leave it to me, and trust to Providence for the rest ! So, here ...

... censerva- 3tories. It is galling to reflect that within a stone's throw of his melon-pits peasant chil. t dren may be gathering blackberries, and the 3 poultry of farm servants may be picking up Iwhollygratuitous worms. Now, in the boen. ficence of his nature ...

... the main walks, from which they'caf keep a sharp eye on their docks.' bachelors are as plentiful vat these gatherings as blackberries in nutumn. Men who will not go to balls this weather on account of the heat, nor to dinners for thp same reason, will ...

... two thin slices of bread and butter, Is the best poison for mice. MI IUaS.-Complaints of Eeedshop seeds are plentiful as blackberries. Go to nurseries. Antirrhiniims want no protection, and a garden frame will do for mimunus. A. D.-1870 two-year-old seedling ...

... Republic held in so many of our towns since its proclama- tion? Why, the evidences of such a change are as plentiful as blackberries,' and only those who pur- posely olose their ey es and ears can fail to see and under- stand them. Such a change may not ...

... seat of the fractional part of the Government which exercises the executive power outside of Paris. Reasons, plentiful as blackberries, X are given by the M oniteur why Tours should be the w place. Geographically, Tours occupies a position B sufficiently ...

... WHEn. the little nigger boy wanted to attend his father's fmneralb heiasked'tie scboolmaster for a.holiday 'to go a- ,blackberrying. WHAT'S BEEN UP LAmELY?-Umbrellas.. A GODD branch of businessjust now 'The'mlesletoe. WHAT ordinarily accompanies a goose ...

... school children. Many schools go by rail. The boys, too, trudge down _ by roa( for a summer day in the Forest, or ) autumn blackberrying. There are lads and lassies by the a thousand of course, and grave fathers and mothers with s their children. They are ...

... 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 ...

... and wild. Bramble bushes, affectionately remembered by so many London boys, who watch assiduously the ripening of the blackberries, struggle for pos- session of the ground with the trailing ferns and the sturdy determined holly. One cannot tell whether ...

... excel- lent personage and I ubbock or Lamrnmas Day; then the Teley,-/r suggests a Blue-bell Day in June and a Blackberry Day in October; and a Primrose and Violet Day in March, it says, would not be at all a bad idea. It makes no allusion ...

... are disused chalk pits, and are in some places 160 feet in depth. On the little girl pointing to a tempting cluster of blackberries, the nurse tried to reach them, and fell over the cliff. Her fall was broken by an elder tree, from which sho was sus- ...