... rabbits, digging vertically into the burrow just where the nest is. They are very fond of acorns, nuts, &c., and will pick blackberries off the' brambles. When out for food they hunt with their snout on the ground like' tne pig; their sense of smell does ...

... that if the grace o' God has nae changed your heart, your face proclaims ye a most tremendous rogue! - - - Have you any blackberry pies? asked a hungry traveller of the mistress of a ,tumbh-down shanty by the roadside in one of the upper counties of ...

... and willing to set the table in a roar. He had jt pleasant word for every one, the garcon flung compliments about like blackberries among the ladies, and at the same time plied the soup-ladle and the car- ving-knife with a dexterity which I never saw ...

... These last are very fond of the beech mast. Bullfinches are very scarce this flight, principally owing to the blight in the blackberry time. There has never been known such a scarcity of these berries these 30 years. Siskins have not yet arrived, but this ...