... with toll waving grasses, which presently, as the 'lane descended towards the village, gave place to overgrown hedgerow blackberry and honeysuckle. Great fronds of fem, spikes golden rod, and few Asrt stems of late fon-glove, by_ the wayside. Across the ...

... sing. That was another occupation. Then I used to ride with the boys, or sometimes we would go fishing, or nutting, or blackberrying-oh ! there was plenty to do, and the days were never too long. ' A better education than most ladies can show, he replied ...

... employment. We fear that facts will not bear the gallant Colonel out. F. A's and B. A'n are as plentiful as the proverbial blackberries, in this eonntry, and it is no easy task to field them employment. Doctor Pope evidently recognised this fact, and was ...

... torch-bearers, who formed procession, and accompanied the sleigh, while bonds were stationed Along the route as thick as blackberries in autumn. The route was ablass with fireworks and illuminations. The procession throughout was one of the most extraordinary ...

... which have been laid on their shoulders since their enforced annexation to the borough. Reasons were given, plentiful as blackberries, why the district of New Normanton required the outlay; and rea- sons are always ready to hand when the ratepayers grumble ...

... and lively men can be termed a Terpid Crew, which is about on a par with a white blackbird, or the Irish definition of blackberries areI always red except when they are green. While such per- i eons are a ma etug over such things I will endeavour ...

... English are the queerest deevils I ever saw. Tb ...

... many paintings all reflect great credit upon her pencil. Her still-life sketches are : admirable, and her oil painting Blackberries a very pains- taking study, likewise her Shells. A painting of trout after Pentreath, ) and A View on the Maas ( ...

... go on, also a plant or two of the Virginian Creeper, and its relative Ampelopsis Veitchi, perhaps an Arn«r__n Bramble, or Blackberry. Primroses will also go on ; Snowdrops, Daffodils, Hepaticas, Foxgloves, and all tbe sundry odds and ends of plants which ...

... Gibbs was one of the Law officers of the Crown; and officio informations against Liberal newspapers were as plentiful as blackberries. It is curious to note in the first number long leading article of Leigh Hunt (the little indexing hand in the left bottom ...

... procession, and accompanied the sleigh (in which rode Hanlan and Co.), while bands were stationed along the route as thick blackberries in autumn. The route was ablaze with fireworks and illuminations. A halt was made at the Opera House, where it had been ...

... do part of the family's scrambling for money, by picking wild strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and fine luscious blackberries, and standing on the road side, offering the fruit for sale to the tourists in pretty baskets, platters, or boxes of birch-bark ...