... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... and other tongues of Europe; and there is no lack of Orientalists and Russian scholars, while Chinese are' as thick as blackberries. But Zulu dictionaries are still unwritten, and Zulu literature cannot be said to attract the masses. The Zulus had danced ...

... 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 ...

... of reality. One of the prettiest of the modern subjects is Mr. Christie's full-length figure of a little girl gathering blackberries (3 1), to which he gives the title of A Rose among Thorns ; and in the same class of purely naturalistic art may be placed ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... will be free from these :e iny paraphrases of some of Nature's sweetest ale e eubodied in fruit and flower. Would ..t blackberries, ivy - berries, or black turrants bs equally gr.sf-expressing, and t liftie amore consistent ? AL beautifualE aied novel ...

... 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 ...

... d2 the dramtatis personse are all brought together, virtue Is rewarded, vice-is punished, and-money is as plentiful as blackberries are in autumn. Mliss Myra -Helms msde a very pretty picture in her. riding-habit a a haute equestrienne, and was properly ...

... everything he says must be takea in good humour and in good truth. Transpontine authors were in my time as plentiful as blackberries, and almost as cheap; and I never,-as one of them, got upon an average a 5 note, until Mr Barrett gave me about six times ...