... picturesi Topsy or the Parish D ctor, or describes a Mop or Statty, when be leads us to the hayfield or to the blackberry harvest, introduces us to the village barber or to the public-house dog. The sketches were well worth collecting and re ...

... Aunt Dacic, Major Birt, Mlazie Birt, Lucelle McGregor, Dumphie McGregor, and the Rev. Louis Draycott were as plentiful as blackberries amongst us. These are the leading characters in Louis Draycott: the Story of his Life, by Mrs. Laffan (Chapman and Hall) ...

... rawness about the colour which repels. Two girls-young ladies of rather Jano-esque forms-and a little boy are among the blackberries : one lady is raising an exquisitely-1 moulded naked arm to gather a berry; the other is daintily endeavouring to liberate ...

... they ran source, though I have met with that form; but as Thomsons and: Thompsons, Toinsons, and Tompsous they abound like blackberries. Had it not been for Tom, in fact, the seasons might still have gone unsung: electricity would lack some of the brightest ...

... chronicler as by perverse beauty that oannot be catalogued. The nearest oolour to it that I can think of after much so- study is blackberry juice just slightly softened and ian tinted with a little cream. It is an adorable tint, un- Ins like anything we have had ...

... for a million or so, especially on heavy settling days, would seem to be a matter of course, if not quite as plentiful as blackberries. A few years ago the Manchester Ship Canal Company, when buying out the Bridgewater Trustees, drew One cheque for- a million ...

... fringed ,.itl, tall poplar-trees, .which give a certain air of ,Itiilfllss to the place. Outside are the country Iis with the blackberries bi-ginning to ripen in the Ireriges, arid the white convolvulus turning hcr fair ?? Ie p to the light. To the left is the ...

... many c more. The tiling's plain enough to my alaucy ; the heath's swarming with game pheasants is more c plentiful thant blackberries-leastwise they used to t be then, wheo I 'were keeper. 1 Oh, you were keepor theu? Yes, he replied quickly; ha'ye ...

... parcel is from Mrs. Searle and Viollette, and contains blackberry jelly I Plesan eperene i te psthad enabled me to ~-uascoretly ad ad m fiedshave muchen loye th deicius cnfetio. Hw the blackberries weregatere an muc moe areebleinformation 5 wil beglenedfrm ...

... bearing on fruit as food, and on bottling Bntish fruit, to all sending a stamped and addressed wrapper, Oar abundant crop of blackberries makes the present a very suitable time to test the merits of the suggestions therein afforded. Woodlands, Vauburgh Hill ...

... careful of your peninies, for, as they say, 'the ows pounds mind themselves.' As to situations, they hI&, are 'plentiful as blackberries' to those who pin teek.I I Could not make her out. Naturally, I knew he, she was good as gold. Mercenary I cocid mot ...

... different operations. I cannot tell you any more about that at present, as it would take too nmnch room. There are so ntanv blackberries about - Ramsey, I and ' he other little girl picksdr about three pints and were home in an hour and a half.-I must now ...