... of London a few years ago produced the most disastrous results. Foreign workmen, who seem always to be as plentiful as blackberries, were brought over, and with these and female labour the masters managed to do without the obstinate strikers. The straits ...

... is now exceedingly rich in autumnal wild flowers and berries, and on the little girl pointing to a tempting cluster of blackberries the nurse tried to reach them and fell over the cliff. Fortunately her fall was broken by an elder tree, where she was ...

... another persons' power. If you put your thumb between two grinders, they are very apt to bite. CHEAP DAINTIES.—Plentiful as blackberries pro- verbially are, and delicious as is their flavour, it is a fact to be deplored that so many bushels are actually wasted ...

... next meeting of the guardians will be the last for the year. Already the candidates for four parishes muster as thickly as blackberries, and in every pro- bability there will be a contest in four out of the six divisions of the Union. There will be no alteration ...