... state; pushed as far as the forest of Vandame, where they gorged themselves with wild strawberries in spring, with nuts and blackberries in summer. Soon the immense plain had become their proiperty. But what flung them so constantly upon the roads from Marchiennes ...

... 1 spent mac v and many an hour it those qearnies from enrly boyhood, siatchbng the quasrymen at their work, or pioking blackberries. Betlthe narrativesbronuhthomb bythese men - Were too vivid in comparison with my oaun tame and-feeble kperiences; and ...

... Associatiou from Qtleen's County send some novel designs in embroiuery, toilet worked in grape pattern, sacs de ntca in blackberry ard other designs, mats, &c. The Tea-room is entirely devoted to portraits of eminent women, including those of Elizabeth ...

... poetical fashion. His poems, Ol- such a: I ean retenhber, sero i An Ode to a r- Blaoliberry Bush,' beginningL blackberry butsh you are, o0 A blackberry bush you'll be, a, £our misothier was a blauitbcrry bush, t Anid you are one the same as sbe,' I which cannot ...

... thee,, aitid the penslte, indeed, still remains unique of its kidl, but Easter eggs are nomv as pleistiful in England as blackberries, and many are the vague theories started as to tbeir origin. A year or two after, in 1864, I was in Germany when the Holstein ...

... as Captain Areher: someone undertook to ask him his reply ians charscteristic of the nian. Captains are as commnon as blackberries! Years ago when I hoped to be nfade major I put simply 'Archer' on my liggage. When I came into at bit of money I hardly ...

... commendedl. l Painting On Fabric, S3i and Satin, Cl:>Y IV-Ist prize, ?? ers on fine satin pane!s, by Mrs H I Dobbs; . id, blackberries on cushion, bv Miss C Dunne. A painting of azalias and ChristTmas roses on cosy, by i Mrs llamisbn, was highly commended ...

... assembled. was essentially a holiday one, and the new Juliet was accorded a most hearty reception. Juliets are as plentiful as blackberries, bat very few of the young ladies who essay that exceedingly difficult role succeed in making their impersonation even ...

... the ltop. The vI In little tubes atilconnect cvitb bit b tube. 'This is c 05 called a foric, and resembles a cluter of blackberries. p id Two or three dozen bulbs Luay be on a forii. Toe it i.Y glaos blower places filaments iil each bulb at the e ill ...

... in its weird treatment is No. 99, Snowdon,' by Walter Williams, and there are pleasant contrasts of colour in No. 13$, Blackberry Brambles, by J. Fitzmarshall. No. 138. A Mountain Tarn, by Charles Stuart, is a charming picture of one of the nooks ...

... of :l'istedd- r fodwyr, however, and you will be led to bel ieve t that Ab Owilymus abound here as plenti- t fully as black-berries in summer. Trash of this sort is not only ridiculous in itself, butis productive of much real mischief to the literature ...

... small gothic arches constructed with moss and white dahlias, and at regular distances hung small fancy baskets filled with blackberries. Above this design there was a floral cross, and the front portion of the structure was embellished with several bouquets ...