... 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 ...

... 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 ...