... young lady who promptly answered “ A prickly pear,” got the medal A uun-TURTLE can neither fly, sing, gallop, ery, or go blackberrying; aud yet, if they are let alone, they get along just as well as the young man who tries to be funny at a lawn party. A ...

... familiar objects look out doors than in the house. A bud aits on the nest bough, life everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs; pine cooes, chestnut burs, and strawberry leaves are strewn about. It loaktd a* if thi* war the ...

... was positively no evidence for Mr. Gladstone to rebut ; no argument for him to refute. Accusa- tions were as plentiful as blackberries, bnt accusations witboot evidence or proof are con- temptible, and show only the weakness of the case, and the incapacity ...

... wood might epeedily be presented to each a meeting as this for its approval. But good candidates do not grow aa thickly as blackberries, and it was far better to exercise a wise patience and submit to some little delay than to select a candidate who bad not ...

... Unfortunately the nuisance of these modern days is the too great prevalence of both classes. Village Hampdens are as thick blackberries in September, and seers, alongside whom Isaiah and Jeremiah would hide their diminished heads, crop in the highways and ...

... 0 t , IOIENT NOTES. The past week has produced sensational cricket in 'bare dance, and centuries have been as common as blackberries. C.O .track the key-note by simply overwhelming the Australians, and for the Brat time on record three bat men on one side ...