... blac-purpur was rut ; and blscang signified paleness, wanness. Its contradistinction to bloc, that meant black ; bloc-ben% was • blackberry ; blasrern, an or atspd ; bhco.gym, a black [mail, jet; blweerhem, a raven ; blmc-tyro, black tar, naphtha; a soft of bitummoas ...

... father, a si¢kly man, who was in receipt cf outdoor relief, and his wife were stated to be in the habit of goi.g out picking blackberries or bird-catching, but the man sometimes only earned (d. a day. The relieving oficer stated that the man poitively declined ...

... precipitous garden whiteweshed set• togs. Below were scattered a few boulder', inter. mired with patches of gins& and tangled blackberry bushes; then a strip pale yellow saad, and berond, the blue water of the little bay. Aseending the path from the beach thaw ...

... rather scanty amount of salary. Members of the legislature, militia colonels. captains, licutenanta, de., were as thick as blackberries, and, as the Yankee expressed himself, there were may you could shake a stick at, but school-teachers were rather a scarce ...