... Novelists, in SOcidY. Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit was unripe, one said it was ridiculous to call them blackberries, when they were red. Don't you know, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green.—The ...

... period, for the world knowing nothing of its greatest men. Not to now, for autobiographies are not only as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, but biographies are published in many instances almost as soon as the scythe of death has completed the half-circle ...

... nursemaid, was out with a little girl amongst some disused chalk pits, at - Guildford, and, in attempting to reach a bunch of black-berries for the child, fell over a precipitous cliff. Her descent was broken by an elder tree, from which she was e suspended for ...