... JOURNALISTS.—It is needless to say that first-class journalists, in whatever party we look for them, are not as plentiful as blackberries. If we consider what such a man ought to be, we shall be overwhelmed with the multiplicity of his requirements. He must ...

... cry, Who had had such an afternoon's thwacking as I? Just the old story. the bowling quite collared. Fours thick as blackberries. Lor how they hot- lared— Foodles, whose new•fangled notion of cricket Is score of two hundred and never a wicket! Hit ...

... of Preston, died from the feffeets of poison. On Sunday week she, with several other companions, was at Fulwood, picking blackberries. They came across a quantity of bright red berries, and the deceased swallowed some, evidently in mistake for hawthorn ...