... been a favouri t e none—not a shred. Asserti o n s were as p lenti- assertion of the opponents of the Department s i as blackberries, Or as the ministers , not a shadow of foundatioon for Dr Cuteming•s that a Commitsion of Inquiry is necetsary is a thatleolers ...

... rejoicing in London. Why if General Booth is so lavish with his titles, captains and lieutenants will be as plentiful as blackberries in September. All who can fire rhetorical shots and who are willing to join the army, will have some such distinctions ...

... you’d near so good-looking a girl, Nell. Your cheeks are as red they used to last year, when we’d rub you all over with blackberries—round the nose, and over the chin, you know.” She’s a picthcr’, she is,” supplements .Judy, who has been a silent listener ...

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

... building a new church is about “hand round the hat” The Dissenters cry “hold enough we have churches chapels as thick as blackberries in autumn capable of seating every man woman child in the parish— every living being is prayed for and Mondays” Unfortunately ...

... at his translation of ml word doctor, 'for I don't like little boys.' laughed Alfred. Then I sauntered on, looking for blackberries, while ho went away, singing his favourite song Phillii ii my jut. CHAPTF.R 11. Three afterwards (only three, so quickly ...

... Any one who knows how he painted eight years the difference, as also will many they fd h an artist as Mr Herdman con- of blackberries and autumn descending to a study or two semi-imitations of F. Powell in the room, w! hich we forbear to out, and Miss K ...

... etiouuntered the name of Mr. Briggs, and in leading articles the references to this important personage were as plentiful as blackberries in simmer. No wonder Cheri that people should begin to talk about his present abnormal state, and speculate as to his future ...

... feeling, has not clenched his handful of heroic bones at seeing the confiding darhngs left alone in the forest, picking blackberries to appease their hunger, while their bloody-minded uncle was feasting at home on their fortune I English editors are in ...

... Witness then went to the gate and met them. Robert said he supposed it was no harm to get a few blackberries. Witness told him he was not getting blackberries out of the bank. After some further conversation they commenced 'o run away, but when witness ...

... place in the world for getting an appetite, but the worst for getting food. After fasting for a day he . breakfasted on blackberries, and then wrote ! I in his journal, Thank God blackbenios are j I plentiful. After some of his compulsory fast : days ...

... Bridget was carrying the water, and my friend, the Tramp, was some parts behind her cheerfully erolloqulug, and picking blackberries. At seven in the morning he started cheer. h i lly to work. At nine a.m. he had placed three large stones on the first ...