... the not too fertile fields', piced ig up. curious stones' and shells at one time, and t another-picking wild flowers and blackberries, or chasing the much-envied butterfly.' In such sea- sons, too, they had been taken to. pic-nic on hills and in glens ...

... LESSON ON q onALS (O1ArErcAN),-)nee upon a time, boys, there was a little lad .who, desiring to go to a circus, picked blackberries all through one whole hot July week, and when he had gathered enough to sell for fifty cents, 1 there was nO happier s ...

... not to observe this fact, and properly; discount it. Rumours as to the Royal Family are, strange to say, as plentiful as blackberries when in season. I In the present condition of our public exchequer lijcreased salaries will scarcely be regarded as seasonable ...

... the culmninating point of St. llelena. Here a few roughly-squared blocks of tufa, now over- grown with wildl-pel)er and blackberry brambles, are all that remain to mark the site of Edmund Ialley's observatory, where 200 years ago he noted the transit ...

... they are not so plentiful as the German princes and connts, who. at Punkch told us many years ago, re as numerous asE ?? blackberries. He seems to delight in the fact that in Germany therae? only one servgce on Sunday, and t th, rebt of the day maybe spent ...

... winter in the stress of the sharp and continued frosts the greenfinches were driven in December to swallow the shrivelled blackberries still on the brambles. The fruity part of the berries was of course gone, and nothing remained but the seeds or pips, dry ...

... He is not exactly like Falstaff, yo after the rdhbery at Gadshill, who protested that if ho reasons were as plenty as blackberries he would not A1 give them; hut he is quietly and proudly confident lei that he has at last achievejl scone power in the ...

... The Government have been beaten all oves the country bv an overwhelnhiug majority. Reasons for this are as3 aplenty as blackberries. Among them we may mention those of A KEEN POLITICAL OnrEasvEs.- Because the weather hls been dead against them all along ...

... which, as the law at present stands, prevents their cultivation, although large 'tpracsts of laud. nowi only. bearing blackberries and firze might be made marhket-garde'ns, LAND SURVEYOR. ...

... long ago a daily newspaper was unheard of im any but the very largest country towns ; now sach papers are as common as blackberries, while all the larger towns have their halfpenny evening papers as well, which make thQ London press almost superfluoas ...

... cream and old- Yf flounced skirt, trflun. traw, turned up with old gold, and Pi gold; the hat was o 1 , and ai cluster of blackberries on w trimmed wrih cream lab i dress, msade with a deep case- 01 one side. A. white fonlFO ts, ae., of painted flowers, ...

... big white convolvolus stare with wonder-wide eyes, the honeysuckle is out, the wild geranium blooms in the long grass, the blackberry bushes are full flower, and the poppies blaze forth in great clusters at eveiy turn of the road. The corn is only just beginning ...