... reminds one of a story of the American Civil War. After the struggle was over majors, colonols, and captains were as thick as blackberries. Many of these heroes were in the habit of fighting their battles over again at hotel bars. On one of these occasions a ...

... fruitful plains, photographed, as it were, on my memory. BLACKBERRY JAM. My only substantial souvenirs are some jars of veritable blackberry jam and bottle of famous cider. By the way, blackberries are only good when cooked to any one past the age of twelve ...

... comfortably her declining years. During nearly the whole her long life she partook of no other medicine than sulphur and blackberry leaves, to which she attributed her perfect state of health and lougevity. She possessed an extraordinary memory, whieh ...

... : damson, 500 tons ; blackberry, 100 tons, and they can bought retail from any ready-money grooif the following prices Gooseberry, 5d to s£d per lb.; raspberry, 6d to 6£d ; strawberry, fid to fi£d ; black currant, 5Jd; blackberry, s£d; plum, 4d. Mr Gladstone ...

... search was continued the following days, but the lunatic has not been secured. Probably Macdonald subsists on nuts and blackberries and wild fruit, which are plentiful at Bricket Woods and neighbourhood. ...

... the briar and thorn hats are too ex- traordinary to be described, and the latest are the bramble ones, with clusters of blackberries in various stages of ripeness, which look for all the world as if the wearer had twisted up a shape for herself out of ...

... the garden and reads a newspaper. His hopeful, bandylegged son toddles about hunting for blackberries. Tommy waddles up to his parentand asks— Papa, have blackberries got legs? Of course they haven't got any legs. away now, and don't ask me any more foolish ...

... Boiled Neaps, Syboss (free Maeagiel), &milled Tattles, Carly Hail (free Aberdeen). DIZIART. Rally-Polly (Dumfries style), Blackberry Poddin', Grimm. Tart, Cskm Shortbread we Sweetie*, Suds Scones, Polies, Bannock. o' Barley ?deal, Faris o' Aitrneal. a Mackie ...

... passing goods over one or other of the frontiers without paying duty. Straschniks, custom soldiers, are, of course, common blackberries in this golden land, but they cannot more than mitigate the evil, and, indeed, some sceptical personsdeclare that.the ...

... berries have now been taken down, and thi statements made by us before have been found unfortunately too true. most places blackberries aro failure, the best crops being strawberries and rasps. Purchase an Estate.—Wo bear that Mr Wallace, of the Commercial ...

... having, between Sunday and Monday, 9th curt., stolen from the farm house Tilliouries two woollen scarfs and two cans of blackberry jam, the property of her master, Milne. She was dismissed with an admonition.— Margaret Reid, domestic servant, forfeited ...

... hogs in our town all got a spree. One of our townsmen, who had been engaged in making blackberry wine, threw out at the back door his store large quantity of blackberry pulps, which had been fermented and pressed. The hogs ate largely of the berries, and ...