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... EMMA’S BLACKBERRYING. —_— Wiar a mellow, golden Aurust day it was! Just cuch a one as mihes us involuntirily step aside from crushing the wormm in our path—! worm-life is =0 berutitul ! Just suelia day s secins to have wandered away trom our coid ciimate ...
... willow in the swamp begins To fisant in gnld and red ; And in the thorn the blackbird’s nest Swings empty overbead. The blackberry bangs her jewels out, And ¢uards them with a thorn; The merry farmer boys cat down The poor, old, dried-up corn. The swallows ...
... resort asany hereabouts. This terrace or promenade was ekirted seawards by a mixzture of woody shrub ery, hagel, sumach, blackberry, and wild cherry, interspersed with fern, dock, and flowering parasites. This verdant garment, fair -enough to look upon ...
... meal, which consisted uniformly of bread from the village, and milk purchased of a neighbour, though sometimes were added blackberries from the hills, or a cod or haddock from the bay. Her father was too suspicious to have mush to do with his neighbours ...
... the afternoon, Cand the little contrary witch knew it) Then there ! was rare sport in gathering berries—more especinlly | blackberries, Purchased fruit never had the simeo dclicious flavour of that which was plucked wild, | Iresh, and sweet from the bushies ...
... snowberry, cotoneaster, pyrus juponica, with other occupants of the shrubbery, are with few exceptions, very lightly laden. Blackberries seem to be an exception ; fir though much laterin ripnln‘tli‘n usual, they keep up their old character of being plenti ...
... Emperor of China is to take place thn inst, THE PENALTY FOR BROKEN Actions for breach of promise have become plentiful as blackberries in summer; and whenever maiden is jilted by her lover, instead of pining and dying in olden times, the disappointed fair ...
... you see tho Intle murks like goose-tracks ? Those are witches footsteps. The witches and the fairies were plenty here as blackberries, and I know a man who had friends amongst them once. His name is Tom Nolan,aud today hie hives a rich man in Ameriea; but ...
... the boys went away into the forest and brought home firewood ; and during summer and azutumn they gathered whimberries, blackberries, and eranberries, which they zold in the town, and did odd jobs for the farmers, and so hu]p: d their futher to provide ...
... queat, Oa anotber ocention, hoe eluded the vigilnoca of his parents abeut midnight, asd went a levg distavoe in search of blackberry bushes. His parente, who now reside m Rossendalo, afterwards came to live in Shepherd atreet, Bury, and there, on one occasion ...
... mystery not et expained. An lrishman was once asked If he had ever seen a red black. Merry. 1o besure | have,” exid Pat ; ali blackberries are red when they're green.” Some one defines a real poct a 8 **a singer whose verses haunt your twilights.” The definition ...
... 120, L 10, 1.5, and L. 3. 1 The Farl of Fife, Innes ; 2 Sir George Maepherson Graut, Eva; 3 W M*Combie of Easter Skene, Blackberry ; 4 The Earl of K, Vatience of Curskiv ; very high{y commended, The Earlof Fife, Violetof Montheltton; mehly commended, ...