... OPERA BUFFA, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. Fior's for opera buffa can scarcely be said to grow on blackberry-bushes. In France even, where dramatic invention measured by the standard of English barrenness seems almost fertile, some difficulty is experienced in ...

... which onehasneverbeen celebrated can lay little claim to prestige or renown. They have become plentiful as the proverbial blackberry, and, strangest thing of all, nobody seems to grow tired of them. Let the weather be but propitious, and there is alwvays ...

... ng. I am so worried !- The children? Oh yes, the children are all right. I've sent them to hunt up blackberries for a blackberry pudding. Blackberries are over, of course-but they don't know that, and it keeps them out of the way. -And Mr. Pennefeather ...

... stooping under a bundle of cut furze; or a horde of shy little flaxen-polled savages beating the bushes in quest of a few late blackberries ; but sometimes they went for two or three miles without encountering a soul. More than once, a covey of partridges rose ...