... best ; things present, worst. The revival in this age of table-turning and spiritualism, when ghosts are as plentiful as blackberries, of a drama abounding in spectres, apparitions, and all kind of super- natural agencies, is at all events opportune. Besides ...

... great guns depart for their country quarters directly the first fixture is over. At Goodwood, peers are as plentiful as blackberries, and if royal dukes do not abound, it is not so much their fault as that of their intending progenitors. Except for any ...

... expect or allow • al that Ise and east to do sash work ; this is a duty for a dog. Pea old Bake ; I fancy I me him in a thick blackberry hush, held at all as het if he were in the arms of an octopus, until liberated by badly brads sal knives. I have never heard ...

... the Lews” ; Fred Mo 's “ Black- Leriies,” an extremely lulux:fznwell-dn'n figure of a young gurl, and a boy, gathering blackberries ; W. L. Wyllie's *“ The Alps,’ picturing in an effective light these grand snow - covered mountains ; J. White's autumn ...

... forest each side, where tie gipsies and children are at this time of the year always busy gathering acorns and picking blackberries, and tie country quarters of Mr. James Blumsom, the Napier Ant* invite the traveller to rest. [To he continued to-morrow ...

... he goes on his way rejoicing, and able to note all the pleasant things around him—the honeysuckle in the hedgerow, the blackberries in the bush, the trout leaping in the stream, the dragonflies darting among the reeds, the wind sweeping over the corn ...

... Ireland—a success whi,h suggested the possibility and the desirability of extending the Act to England. Reasons, thick as blackberries, would, no doubt, be brought forward against such a step being adopted, but he could not see why that should not be done ...

... of the few would accompanied the vicious self* indulgence the many. (Hear, hear.) Agnostics were said to as plentiful as blackberries, and the means of mischief theyjeffectedwere the delivery lectures on debated subjects, the more popular em* ployment of ...

... nothing which God has made. From the time when the daisies and buttercups appear in the field, until the time when the blackberries are ripe, and the corn may be gleaned, the country is full of pleasant things, of which the little ones never grow weary ...

... Jager', at the country whims, used to liken them when they were neglected young things, wandering about the park and picking blackberries, to the Babes in the Wood. Alexander was the name of the lad. He was seventeen years the junior of his brother Ludwig; ...

... everything. 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 ...

... like day. very little considering the heavy ex- living and bringing a family in a district where children seem as thick as blackberries. the meantime the authorities have as usual h*eu called on to maintain order, and certain number of Belgian workmen, who ...