... gift of vehement speech, and passion for popularity and power. In the days that are coming they will be as plentiful as blackberries. lam quite sure that when the Tory party is in oflice there will never be wanting Radicals to move heaven and earth to ...

... pictures of a refined woman that these latter years have produced. The addition of a hat dangling beside the basket of blackberries would perhaps be an improvement ; it would add completeness to the main idea, for the background is wildish landscape. ...

... galls. With these the coppice furnishes them abundantly. The same frosts that ripen the corn and put the bloom upon the blackberries rapidly develop the body and plumage of the pheasant. And so by the end of September it requires a keen eye to distinguish ...

... looked upon differently from that earned by steadygoing labour on the field or farm. In their season he gathered cress, and blackberries, and nuts. Snipe and woodcock which came to the marshy meadows in severe weather were taken in gins and springes.” Traps ...

... in timber-stacks. It is far more common in thick hedges and bushes that are half-overgrown with rank grass, nettles, and blackberry canes. The bird builds either on the ground or a foot or two above it in some fork of a ragged slump that, as the summer ...

... ication, and few birds now remain or could long survive in a truly wi.d conditiotn before tbe St 0 f October, when the blackberries hang on the brambles and the brown nuts drop from the clusters, the keeper goes, as is his daily wont, to the coppice of ...