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

... coloured. Bees alight on what appear to be veritable sprigs of heather, and butterflies on charming little branches of the blackberry and mouutain-ash. Roses, and convolvuli, in all their gay colours, adorn one series j while May blossoms decorate another ...

... When suffering and struggling commo n ai me, with no signs of improvement, quacks j u fgglers, who are as plentiful as blackberries, rward with their pompons pretences of a ol ao di and radical cure, the motto on their being : Diseases, desperate grown ...