... friend write* to me from her country home in C'nmberUnd, telling of some dinner parties she baa been giving, and eaying that blackberry leaves and •'white wax berries” (by which I suppose she means the milk-white fruit of the American bush gymphoria racemsa) ...

... limpets to the rocks. Earl Granville, a trained diplomatist, can, for instance, find plausible reasons, as plentiful as blackberries in a favourable season, for any change of policy his leader may dictate. There are, however, men of a different stamp in ...

... first of November Removx, on whose tongue continual slanders Tide, has been busy of late Canards have been as conunon as blackberries. Unfortunately they have not been of that innocent kind which is associated with travellers’ tales, but and malicious lies ...

... *‘whereabouts” of some men a ‘puzzle, but also their whyabouts and whatabouts. PrOPLE say that blackberries are good for the complexion ; but who wants a blackberry complexion? “ I¥ money matters,” said a miserable old lellov; “‘treat strangers as though they ...

... they were doing it for money, and were dowbtiul about getting pacd. A mud turtle can neither tly, sine, gallop, or co blackberrying, and yet if they are let a! ‘ xe they get along just as well a» the young man tries to be funny at a lawa party. A man ...

... well-known picture by H ucleuth, and On the East Coast (the latter are both fairexamples by Alex. Frarer, R.8.A. ; and Blackberrying, by J. L. Wingate, ARMA; The Carpenter's Shop, Gifford Vitinge, Longniddry Links, and other Cabinet Work: lackay, A An ...

... patriotism, and freedom—in jovial combination with coffee, ginger-beer, and cold water! Teetotal bards are as plentiful blackberries, and if they oould not, amongst them, produce a new national song quite equal Tennyson’s, it would, fear, a fatal admission ...

... e this ease. Suppose A. Nays to 11., **if C. assaults me, knock him down ! Then D., E., and P., who have been getting blackberries on land belonging to 0., happen to paw, and seeing H. engaged in marking out a ring, they go up to a refreshment stall ...

... meaning only harassment to the Government; while questions and little debates ■over questions have come be as thick as blackberries, and wholly destructive the legislative uses of the House. Last evening was typical one. The ball was set a rolling, u ...

... occasions, when men’s feclings are inel- lowed into sympathy and harmony with all that is compliments are as common as blackberries. It must have been a hard task to bear, though vanity in some persons would make it pleasant. But society, like the child ...

... number of girls. The explanation probably not very difficult to give ; fact tho reasons in this matter ore as plentiful as blackberries. Professor Laurie himself observes that it is natural there should be few boys at the senior examinations, because at that ...

... would be complete , and the collection-box wonid overSow with coin . Converted publicans and sinners ' are as common as blackberries ; bnt it is difficult to beat up recruits from the synagogues of the self-righteous . There is a temptation to linger over ...