... 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) ...

... the firm's stores in Southwark by mid-day. The full flavour of the fruit is of course secured by this rapid treatment. Blackberries, currants, gooseberries, and other fruits are also preserved in the season, and when nothing of English growth is l available ...

... Catholics of all shades in politics. The clergy are naturally well represented, and bishops in black and purple as thick as blackberries. His Eminence, attired'in'full red cAnonicals, is an imposing figure, and owing to his never forgetting a face once seen- ...

... princess, and insisted on being addressed as your Excellelicy. We have a-notion at home that addressed as abound like blackberries in the month of September. It .rusia pricse peussia t Russians hoid a different opinion but that is a detail. So our a ...

... a million or so, especially on heavy settling day's, would seem to be a matter of course, if not quite as plentiful as blackberries. A fesv years ago the Manchester Ship Canal Company, when buying out the Bridgwater Trustees, drew one cheque for a million ...

... foot of Barnet Hill to the Elstree road, near Barnet Gate, where, like Old Hum- phrey, the cyclist may regale himself with blackberries at this season. Crossing the Elstree road, a picturesque winding descent, intersecting open commonis, leads to, Shenley ...

... beings in this charmed district who were vide awake-picking forget-me-nots on the shady side of the road, and big, juicy blackberries on the sunny side. It is very strange this road should still keep ascending, my brother remarked, when after five hours ...

... They are what is called blobby in methcd, but are very rich and decorative in treatment. Mr. Matthew Hale's Gathering Blackberries is good, and Mr. Napier Fleemy's work should be seen, as also should a very good study of a dark hillside, by Mr. C. ...

... bring up from the tips along the canal side all the available boulders that could be laid hold of, and navvies thick as blackberries were spread out over the huge mounds, raking out all the stones they could find. Hundreds of waggon loads were thus obtained ...

... Lethbridge on this best of all possible worlds, in which stars and garters must seem to some of us to grow as thick as blackberries on the trees. The Budget resolution passed just on the stroke of twelve and after rapidly pas ing through the Lords' amendments ...

... daimn mysterious dells, such bliss of running streamn, such freedoma of wide- spread sunny pastures, where blackberries are thick as blackberries should c.;: such magic of lonesome ferny nooks, where, hidden and silent, a clear, dltrk well suddenly makes ...

... Councils willing, to risk public money in buySing, nothing can happen, though would- be yeomen farmers were as plentiful as blackberries. A year ago Parlia- ment was equally busy over the Irish Land Purchase Bill, but now it is assumed as a matter of course ...