... conflicting claims must always be heavy enough to drive any committee to the borders of despair. Good candidates not grow like blackberries on every hedge. They are not to be picked up by every wayside. Every allowance is to be made for the difficulties of choosing ...

... read or sing in little arbour, or stroll away through green fields and shadowy woods, to pluck wi'd flowers or gather blackberries and hazel nuts. Those were indeed joyous hours of sunshine, for, besides boing lovely, and no one could have seen her dark ...

... William Crane, clicker, Dyers-end, from the fact of his child, boy of seven years old, not returning the evening from blackberrying. As the evening faded into night the neighbours began to be alarmed, and several of them went with the father into the ...

... delicate grasses, recalls the spring time to some one of my guests, and others have appropriate apple blossoms, or a branch of blackberry bramble and wild clematis. naturally are they painted that they are sure to excite attention and admiration, and many a ...

... iust. The church was beautifully decorate 1. In the porch were the fruits of the field aud the garden, including crabs, blackberries, sloes, elderberries, and there were also wild and garden flowers, fringes of corn and eaus on either side of the text ...

... in, and line thwith tho paste, cutting it resod about half an inch beyond the rim of the basin. Fill the basin up with blackberries, apples peeled, cored, and cut into small piece', and moist sugar alternately ; sprinkle it throughout with the grated ...

... general admiration. Beside this were Miss Rodbard's examples flower painting from nature—the Christmas rose, the poppy and blackberry, and the gillyflower being very carefully drawn. Miss Neudegg took first prize for very good head, a drawing from the flat ...

... about the time the defendant Loke said he was in Mr. Cowley's field. They all went towards Braybrooke. They gathered some blackberries. Christian au d Dalby when near to Braybrooke went across the fields, for a nearer cut. He, Blackman, and Banks went on ...

... as is always the case when there is a meet at Harrowden. The home plantations were drawn, and Blore Hill, and also the Blackberry Covert, without a find. A steady rain set in about midday. The Third Grade Grammar School.—Pursuant to arrangement, an inquiry ...

... oflios. Crossing the stile that cuts the Church meadow, he surprised a couple of urchins In the heinous act of picking blackberries on a Sunday. parson, the youngsters bolted, leaving their hook hanging in the brambles. They had a Vinie s start, ana ...

... ghostly office. Crossing tho stile that cuts the Church meadow, surprised a couple of urchins the heinous act of picking blackberries on a Sunday. Seeing parson, the youngsters bolted, leaving their hook hanging in the brambles. They had good start, ana ...

... cost rich men retiring, they conveyed her to Clark's drug store, where, with awkwardness, they forced her to swallow some blackberry brandy. She slowly unclosed her eyes, and when asked how she felt, replied, with great bitterness, ' Very well; I crave ...