... the eggs warm from the nest when you hear a hen cackle over her latest performance, and ham and bacon are as plentiful as blackberries. Fowls and ducks abound, and the farmer’s wife will send them up to dinner brown and steaming, with the accompaniment of ...

... to the useful, though this is not any means to affirm that useful Christmas presents will find purchasers plentiful as blackberries. No, indeed, for this year those old customers who were wont to purchase only nseful presents will now buy nothing at all ...

... water melon half cut down, and showing the pink heart within, pile of rosy bloom-cheeked peaches, and profusion of garden blackberries, luscious new luxuries me, of which more anon. When man can eat no more, he can still eat fruit—whence the wisdom of our ...

... the one advised from New York.”— Leiture Hour. Blackberries.—lf the present abundant crop of acorns offers food only for pigs, at least humanity may rejoice over a truly marvellous crop of the wild blackberry. Journeyings hither and thither, through country ...

... cubbing hm been most successful, some rare fun having been enjoyed by the juveniles in covert, varmint turning up as tlii k blackberries. r master of the Badjworth, has an entry cooples this season, of which the following arc the chieflloyal and Roman, by ...

... similarly plums, which are preserved In the autumn to a fabulous extent for the food of the population during the next spring, blackberries, raspberries, and all kinds of currants are largely employed in the manufacture jellies and of light wines for invalids ...

... Croeby, wife George Crcaby, farm labourer, Colton. Mr A. Watson defended. The prosecutrix stated that she was gathering blackberries in field occupied by Moxon, Colton, last Wednesday afternoon when the prisoner came over fence from the field in which ...

... Leeds Police Court, Superintendent Newhouse, of the Sanitary Department, applied for an order to destroy 1000tb. of unsound blackberries, which had beenseizedonthepremheiof Mr W. Paley, fruiterer, Kirkgate Market. Mr Brace granted the application. Riot in ...

... round the circle at his own sweet w ill. At one time he lodged for weeks at solitary farm house; at another he lived on blackberries, hips, and haws. Occasionally he wrote letters for cottagers who had relatives in Liverpool or London, and oftener wrote ...

... caught birdlime are goldfinches, bullfinches, woodlarks, and chaffinches. The beat time for catching bullfinches is in the blackberry time —viz., September and October. Birdlime is more sporting mode of catching birds than netting. The bullfinch catcher ...

... redwing, wood*lark, song thrush, blackbird, snow bunting, uramble finch, siskin, twite, redpoles, &c. The nightshade and blackberries are very plentiful this year, and bullfinches are feeding upon them in the lanes and hedges. Kingfishers are very abundant ...

... and from the sporting papers. There was a tolerabiy fair sprinkling of lords and dukes, and baronets were as plentiful as blackberries in September. All the men were constantly pulling out their cigar cases, lighting up cigars of the choicest brands, and ...