... look to-day. — My dear, I never was as old as I am to-day. A mvd-tubtlb can neither fly, sing, gallop, cry, or go blackberrying ; and yet, il they art- let alone, they get along just as well as the young man re- tries to be funny at a lawn party. ...

... people have an old saying about the delicacy of blackberry chickens; this probably means chickens hatched during the parching heat accom- panied by east winds which;- we often have when blackberries are ripe. If similar weather comes in June or July ...

... drunk. A certain man calls his wife the red, white, and blue, because she has red hair, white teeth, and blue eyes. The blackberry is so named because it is blue, in order to distinguish it from the blueberry, which is black. If you have a pretty daughter ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Early Blackberry. —On Sunday a large ripe blackberry was gathered from a bush growing in the Wagon Works yard. This is very early, as the bushes m the nt ighbourhood are only in flower. Savings' Banks. — Although daring the past ten ...

... marry. Two Irishmen were passing some blackberry bushes. What's these, Mike? inquired Pat of of his companion. — Nothing but blackberries, said the latter. — But they're red, Mike. — Well, Pat, blackberries are always red when they're green. A ...

... that Mr. Park, the landlord, let her have balf a gallon of beer on the basket one Sunday, and as she wanted it to gather blackberries in, she went to bim to get it back and put down a shilling for the beer lent on it. Mr. Park bought, ber a wrouc basket ...

... Around the outer edge of the book rest was a garland of wheat, relived with scarlet hips, the ber- ries of the mountain ash, blackberries, &c, and from which depended a fringe of oats. The side panels were filled iv with bouquets of parti-coloared flowers, ...

... _ir. iiernard Wake a leading Sheffield solicitor. Las been fined £1 and costs, lor savagely beating a man ?? Le found ?? blackberries in a wood on Lis beat. The remote Fort Macleod, in ?? Rooky Moun- tains, Dominion of Canada, has its newspaper. TLe Rev ...

... July section, and one of honey- suckle that for August. September is illu«trat«d by poppies and corn ; October by ripe blackberries ; and November by a great bunch of gnueea anu bulrushes. The frame has to be made exptensly in order to accommodate the ...

... marry. Two Irishmen were passing some blackberry bushes. What's these, Mike? inquired Pat of of his companion. — Nothing but blackberries, said the latter.— But they're red, Mike.— Well, Pat, blackberries are always red when they're green. A French ...

... — white and scarlet geraniums, asters, stocks, iris, daises, lillies, &c.—in- termingled with maiden hair, ferns, moss, blackberries, &c. Over the well of the font rose a light irregular octagonal pyramidal structure decorated with the tendrils of the ...

... Many fine patterns distinguish these dresses. Fruit seems very popular, whether straggling designs of apples or trnils of blackberries and leaves represented alter- nately on white and coloured stripes. Superb on dark blue looka a pale blue rose with an ...