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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CITY GATE

... a field, with lovely green grass, dotted with the i brightest and most beautiful flowers, and studded with hawthorn and blackberry bushes, in which the birds gaily carolled from early morning to dewy eve. The only birds now in the neighbourhood are s ...

POETRY

... boy pulls forth a mouse's nest. And then the tempting bramuble-wreatths invite the babes again, Their pretty mouths with blackberries so sweet and ripe to stain; And many as brown nut slips its sheath to share, poor ittle thing, A burstingpocket with a ...

A LOST LIFE

... shadows, fragrant violets grew, and clematis and wild roses clung together in a tangle of sweetness; where the bushes of the blackberry, with it% abundance of tinted blossoms, gave fair promise of a rich crop of its luscious fruits ; beside this lIke, in the ...

FOR PASTIME

... Europe. The mood to go was on him now-he had no patience with waiting-sa for gowns and things, they were plenty there as blackberries in New Hampshire. Miss Sturgis was a theosgh-bred. self-contained woman of the world * but she was neither without heart ...

LITERATURE

... I our fate's the same If he sball e'er Bnd me or you siok. Compliments to the fair sex are,, of course, as plentiful as blackberries in a Devonehire lane:- The world must now two Venuses adore Ten are the Muses, and the Graces hour. Such Dora's wit, so ...

VARIETIES

... with sheet-lead. Perhaps it al was the same man who saw a white blackbird sitting on a 38 wooden mile-stone, eating a red blackberry. [e A swell, while being measured for a pair of boots t, observed, Make them cover the calf. Impossible l ex- t.. claimed ...

POETRY

... the little laggard stay ! So swift of foot as she ever has been It is not so far, by the meadow way, To the lane where the blackberry vines begin. Her mother stands in the doorwaaFtbere, Shading her eyes from the setting sun, And up and down, with an anxious ...

POETRY

... a lift from the bull there. 'Tis delightful to range the woods when they change, And the nuts get riper and riper, And blackberries sweet invite you to eat, -If you don't get a bite from a viper. It's charming to float with the tide, in your boat, When ...

A BATCH OF EPIGRAMS

... word remarked, moreover, will probably bethought IP To indicate compteteness, and so it ought. ot VHAT'S IN A NAME 7 at Blackberries, the proverb says, t Are not really black always. 3i Thin saew is edged with reason, It As we have seen this season ...