... which were racers, horn-tail adders, gray adders, and pilots, in an old, worked-out flag-stone quarry, while he was picking blackberries. They were all coiled in together, and when he disturbed them they made a terrible hissing. He and an Irish boy, named ...

... his way rejoicing, and L e le re t d o . note all the pleasant things around hjm--ths honeysuckle in the hedgerow, the blackberries in the latish, the trout leapine in the stream, the dragonflies darting among the reeds, the wind sweeping over the corn ...

... windows were arranged in designs worked out with dahlias, wheat-ears, laurustina. and ferns, and the font was trimmed with blackberries, rose-berries, and green leaves. At the morning service the church was fall. The proper Psalms (lei., lvii., °MA and the ...

... berry-bush, when the first fruit was unripe, one said it was ridiculous to call them blackberries, when they were red. Don't you know, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green. TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORB.—On one occasion Casting ...

... labourers and others of proprietary rights in the soil they cultivate. EPITOME 01? NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. At Odenwald the blackberry is much valued, and a large quantity of claret is manufactured from its juice. The ylel4 this season in some districts is ...

... being burnt. SUPEMTITION ABOUT BLACKBERRIFS.—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 is considered ...

... arrived with his Laud-cart at Brimiugton. In a lane he came across deceits, d and a number of ether children, who were blackberrying. Deceased followed him for wome distance, and some time afterwards he was observed to be acting indeerntly hie in a lane ...

... daughter of a Colin r at Staveley, near Chesterfield, on the 20th of last August. The deceased and other children woe blackberrying in a lonely part of the county at Biimington, near t beaterfield, when the culprit decoyed her away, outraged her, strangled ...

... and a pretty arrangement of flowers and ferns. The lectern was much admired, its cl..thing of hops, corn ears, grapes, blackberries, ferns, floe ere, and wild berries, being much admired. The pulpit looked very well, set of as it was by fine spikes of ...

... be narrow-minded, short-sighted diggers who, when they have found a new field, act like school boys who have come upon a blackberry bush—want to have it all to themselves, and try to keep off a rush, when, if the field is really good for anything, A rush ...

... medlars, f e m. Around the rails were bunched composed of barley, oats, honesty, bat berries, tomatoes, wild clematis, blackberries, &c. On the lamp brackets behind the rostrum, were clusters 1.1 fruit and wheat, and on the chandeliers barberries, corn ...

... father, a sickly man, who was in receipt of outdoor relief, and hie wife were stated to be in the habit of going out picking blackberries or bird-eatebing, but the man sometimes only earned 6d. • day. The relieving officer stated that the man positively declined ...