... officers in the army. Judges at ten thousand, eight thousand, six thousand, and five thousand a-year are as plentiful as blackberries on a hedge in autumn. As for solicitors to this, that, or the other, at salaries which dodge up and down - from £3,000 ...

... 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 ...

... berries, the thorn tlees being so laden that Ob, they look like hollUies, ?? unleasantly remind .ne of Ch1ristmras. The blackberries, too, are a nutnerou,4, and in ltl sUU Lgs, from the crude the green to tle deep purple of theripe and luscioustf berry ...

... accommodate without serious results: quantity and quality alike are considered with large and liberal comprehensiveness: unripe blackberries i and aloes which are scarcely tinted by the sun, 8 'Which would inflict diarrhcea upon an army of adults, t they devour ...

... is an old Celtic tale of a lad who was set impossible tasks. l Among others he had to find ripe blackberries in February. If this weather last, blackberries may be not uncommon * in February at Ventnor. As for the flowers, they blossom with a profusion ...

... 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 ...

... another view of yonder landscape. A scone so fair is not so soon forgot. I saw some children with a basket filled with blackberries, and I, having a great liking for that fruit, went off to gather soue, and forgot all about my suicidal tendencies. As ...

... Cooper, ug lilA., Caniterbury Meadows, Evening, 1474.-Voldus 'in By B. raster: The Primrose G3atherers, 231 1.-Brown jut The Blackberry Gatherers (the oowpaution), 1851.-ti use Brewn. By T. M. Richardson: On the Road to Tevoli ~is 1 734 Us.- Brown. By Gt. ...

... hundred years, but in Easton's volumes on longevity the names of men and women of Ixo, 120, and 130 years are as common as blackberries in autumn. The confession of Fenayron, the retired apothecary who murdered his wife's lover and flung him into the Seine ...

... 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 ...

... sin~g ini the old Cs willowy fashion ; while should the rash new- tb comer venture to taste one of the never-ripening ca blackberries that adorn the hedge-rows he DI speedily receives a lesson to leave them alone for the future, for at once his mouth is ...

... Neweastle-upon1- go Tyan adds another to the list of'journalists in the House we of Commons, They are now as thick there as blackb~erries, WI and their numbers will probably be inrerasedat the next we election, as Sir Algernon Borthwick, of the Mornisng on ...