... IRISH ANECDOTES. Tivo gentlemen passing a blackberry when the fruit was unripe, one said was ridiculous to ca.l them blade berries when they were r,d. ■ Don t you know. said his friend, that blackberries are always rtd when tbev are ...

... and blue bells, in their various seasons. August all the place is aflame with wild rose and woodbine, and in October the blackberries, art y as large as grapes, hang in clusters on the bah e s . This secluded spot is some two miles from even ttiejasorest ...

... Tn. intimation of the decease of Mr David Grieve, coalmaster, which took place somewhat suddenly at his residence at Blackberrying, on the 12th inst., canted a widespread feeling of regret, not only in this parish, where he was so well known and deservedly ...

... were spoken of “Fifcish.” They would observe that he had made out his case ; and if Parliaments were become as thick as blackberries they would not allow their claims to be lost sight of, but they must also have Parliament for Fife. (Laughter.) In connection ...

... creating charges on land for the pur|>ose of carrying out improvements and works of public utility. Reasons are as plentiful blackberries when the head of a Government detriment wants not to something. Even our Conservative contemporaries admit that it was ...

... railway to land CUderbank in the firm of Grieve railways from to to to to Port patrick Dingwall to others ago ac quired Blackberry hill from Sir William Baillie and to tOl hia In banker of -coal field find him of fields in was con turned director till ...

... the law courts there must be 3,000 which do not. course, nobody supposes that monsters like Williams are as plentiful as blackberries; but drunken fathers and mothers are unfortunately too common, and young children have no protection against their brutality ...

... consumed are made from things other than grapes. The homely gooseberry comes to us as luxurious fix. and the hedge-grown blackberry is concerted into fruity, full-bodied claret. It is said that vast stores of Madeira really made from the grapes grown there ...

... him, and fiuishod him entirely for the sake of the purse money he might have had, and dragged him amongst tke ferns and blackberry bushes, where might lie for weeks undiscovered ? Hail f really dreamt it all, and there had been no accideut whatever Had ...

... Miss. If Robert’s jealous let him be so. Twill do him good and tw'ont hurt me. ['m not likely to be hard up for a lover. ‘Blackberries,’ remarked Belinda sententiously ‘i filcuxifuller nor baronets.’ ‘ Bother baronets ! replied pretty Miss Polly. ‘¢ And bother ...

... prepared by the clever American housewives, as moat Britushers know littl e of. Gra p es grow freely and more plentifully than blackberries, and of late years, moat of your readers know, the growing of grapes, oranges, lemons, almonds, c., &c., has become • f ...

... consumed are made from things other than grapes. The homely gooseberry comes to us as luxurious fin, and the hedge-grown blackberry is concerted into fruity, full-bodied claret.. It is said that vast stores of Madeira really made from t i e grapes grown ...