... one of a story of the Awmerican Civil War. After the struggle was over, majors, colonels and captains were as thick as blackberries. Many of these heroes were in the babit of fightin{ their battles over again at hotel bars. Un one of these occasions a ...

... which attacked him. The victim of the onslaught was a farmer He residing in a country town in America. had left home on a blackberry-picking expedi- tion, and was engaged in this occupation in the midst of a weod when suddenly he black ants. detected millions ...

... ensue which need great deal tact to prevent their developing into serious disputes. Kings in West Africa are plentiful blackberries, but they are not the less tenacious of their dignity, and it is often a difficult business to keep the peace between them ...

... HOUSEHOLD HINTS. FRUIT SIIORTCAILA.-.-HUCklebelTieS are much liked; in this country blackberries or mulberries could be used in their stead, and nothing could be more delicious thin Raspberry or Strawberry Shortcake. The recipe here r, , for ordinary ...

... painful, but we quote :hem because they are altogether strange and unprecedented. It seems that Isaiah Bumcrat was picking blackberries in wild patch of undergrowth in a dense wood, when suddenly ho disturbed millions upon millions of large, black ants. They ...

... but too cobby for our fancy, and he gives sine the idea of being slow, whilst of quite a different stamp was Mr Darrell's Blackberry, by The Muleteer; light all over, but abounding in quality, she lacks strength to carry • big man, Mr J. 11. Dale's Kazoo ...