... the culmninating point of St. llelena. Here a few roughly-squared blocks of tufa, now over- grown with wildl-pel)er and blackberry brambles, are all that remain to mark the site of Edmund Ialley's observatory, where 200 years ago he noted the transit ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... sing. That was another occupation. Then I used to ride with the boys, or sometimes we would go fishing, or nutting, or blackberrying-oh ! there was plenty to do, and the days were never too long. ' A better education than most ladies can show, he replied ...

... do part of the family's scrambling for money, by picking wild strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and fine luscious blackberries, and standing on the road side, offering the fruit for sale to the tourists in pretty baskets, platters, or boxes of birch-bark ...

... same dog-fox Ulysses is not proved worth a blackberry. Once more the blackberry is not without its folk-lore, and there is a popular superstition that the Devil always puts his cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmas Day, and on this account it ...

... declines to explain till he hears that ,.II his brother nurserymen have made their fortunes. We are glad he has a good word for blackberry jam; with cream he pronounces it quite an exotic dish -the ne plu hs ultra, we suppose, of praise from a nurseryman. ...

... prove this-that Biblical olive grove ; and the mule-path, suggestive of hunts for wild flowers (or blackberries in season, for the ubiquitous blackberry grows here beside the caper and the pepper), and picnics up among the pine groves; and that olive mill ...

... mother-sheep, the feeding of the cattle, and the clover meadows. We are taken into the lane and examine the hedges, the blackberries, and the cottage, and we hear the song of the thrush ; into the woods in tender spring, in green summer, and golden autumn ...

... Then for varieties of white bloom, there is the white clover and the large white discs of the cow-parsnip, and the white blackberry blossoms, and the clusters of the elder, and the large, flat, snowy flowers of the wild Guelder rose, which is here called ...

... germinate in the poorest ground, then as successive growths of this weed decay and vegetable mould accumiulates, r spberry ind blackberry vines spring up from seeds brouglht by bilrds. Theru come the birches and mountain cherry trees, sheltered at first by the ...

... from the windmills to the sea, and from the Barons of the Cinque Ports to the hut of the poor labourer, with his basket of blackberries. His tomb was erected by the Committee of the Religious Tract Society. Here have come Archdeacon Hare and John Sterling ...