... them before they are ripe ; but a blackberry, unless dead ripe, is the poorest of fruits, whereas when dead ripe it is almost the best. If you be a perpetual peripatetic in the lanes, you will sometimes find the blackberry pretending to rival the orange ...

... Ritchie entertained a privileged coterie with his recent Balmoral experiences ; foreign decorations were as plentiful as blackberries, and it is assorted that if anything could help the Commis.sioners to get over the technical points which still beset their ...

... trees in the k with the of ber maid, one of to meet and hurried on fearful of being a sent train. It waseasy A thick of blackberry and bolly, form- beeches which grew in the hollows she threaded she had chosen bat one com parati varied little dells iT) ...

... now 2s. 6d. a ton, will rise to 10s. Nearly two million tons are sold annually. Two little girls, named Stewart, were blackberrying on a cliff near Galway, on Friday, when one fell over into the the river, 24 feet below. Her sister tried to save her, ...

... least trouble. Two Irishmen were passing some blackberry bushes. What's these. Mike? inquired Pat of his companion. Nothing but Wackherries, sail :he latter. But they're red, Mike. Well, Pat, blackberries are always red when they're green Fmk. ...

... bareback riding terminates right here And I rolled myself off the starboard side of that horse and struck on my head in a wild blackberry bush. I went home with a nose full of briars and an accumulation of raw experience that would have been worth its weight ...

... is the thing to do the Art galleries. Stories about Mr. Whistler—whose visit to America is postponed—are as plentiful blackberries. But this seems fresh. It is said that one day a young artist called on Mr. Whistler and went into the properly ecstatic ...

... him, and threw him down, and found that he had a gun in his pocket.—Defendaut denied the charge, and said ho was only blackberrying.—Fined £1 and costs (is.) Dnusx.—George Brown of Cowl-street, was fined 2a. Bd. and coats (7e.) for being drank and disorderly ...

... and grow restless, you can go on= Before I met you this world was a desert to me. I didn't take any pleasure in going blackberrying and stealing rare ripe peaches, and it didn't matter whether the sun shone or not. Bat what a change in one short year ...

... question, and can euily supply reasons be is happy to inform his friends that it proves to be as he could wit now find blackberries on our brambles. o f t h e very fi nest qua li t y. I t ma y b e h a d i n b ott l es o f Good Strong Boots made to order ...

... placed with the favourite ballruehes pes grass The = glistening feathery is pow meen towering aloft in mux with pampas and black-berried privet The trasln, stag-horn moss from Sootch moorlands arranged n dinner tables, flat, in and out of flower receptar| ...

... On the 26th ult. three fullyexpanded primroses were gathered on the Bristol and Bridgwater highway near Sydoot, and, as blackberries were still lingering upon the same line of hedgerow, it would have been possible to combine at the same moment the joys ...