... forthwith retraces his steps. Some declare that the untoward agency was an old woman in • rod cloak gathering sloes, or blackberries, or something of the kind; others that boys were the cause of the mischief ; others, again, that it was second horseman ...

... sexes, fair and unfair, jealous and sportloving, habited and pipeclsyed, they were present on Saturday as thick as the blackberries at the covertaide—Braunston Gorse to wit. What omen, by the bye, are we to attach to • crop so unprecedentedas that which ...

... extraordinary mildness of the season may be gathered from the fact that got se is in bloom ; its lateness, from the fact that blackberries are only finning on some bushes. The County Limerick Foxhounds, who remained in kennel last week owing to the Dowager Lady ...