... prove to have been at all invariably attended by injury to the fruit. The crop is reckoned half an average. Iledgenuits, blackberries, and mushrooms are plentiflith Vt of England this season, and the great abundance of ordinaryh nu'tsi remarked from other ...

... their bill of fare then is an agree- able contrast to the luxuries of the coops and the feeding-whistle. The pheasant likes blackberries, sloes, haws, seeds of various kinds, tender leaves, and insects. How the old-fashioned hedgerow offers all these I And ...

... Porthlo nestles on the hillside. Then, leaving Carn Marvel and Sandy Bar, with the slopes between alive with fern and juicy blackberries, we cross the Roads, our pilot assuring the nervous that the terrible Dammy Sin- ncrs ledge is well to windward. Away ...

... interesting instance of his gourmand taste. The 'crop of a greyhen which I opened, he says, contained rasp- berries, blackberries, ants, heather, grass, and oats, and the bird, after having half filled her crop with the grain, had evidently com- pleted ...

... induced our party-managers in latter days to sub- stitute the lady for the male canvasser. Though reasons be as plentiful as blackberries, the average elector will vote for no one on compulsion. The more a fellow-man attempts to teach him the more resentful ...

... carpeted with bracken, with here and there a bright-coloured gorse-bush or-prickly bramble, laden in autumn with luscious blackberries. In the spring the ground is bright with acres of bluebells, primroses, and violets. In summer the woods are alive with ...

... the growers, whq have no har~estingy expenses, or storage-room rent, or any indefinite period to wait for their money. BLACKBERRIES This wild fruit is so plentiful this year by hedgerow and copse and on moor and common, that correspondents are asking ...

... jostled each other on the high road to fame; when beautiful women, be they duchesses or fruit-girls, were as frequent as blackberries. Yet they had all passed out of sight but for him who had magic enough to transform what had else been a mere memory into ...

... number ot eminent lawyers who have been distinguished in literature is not great. Bacons have not been exactly as common as blackberries, and the list of Chancellors, Chief Justices, or learned jurists in general, who have made their mark in letters, does ...

... a steep hill marked Dangerous to Cyclists. It is a beautiful country, the road bordered by tall hedges covered with blackberries, on which the Boy had a feed. The landlady persuaded him to try some of her choice halfpenny cigars. I think he wofully ...

... elk and killed him ; here I enjoyed glorious salmon-trout fishing, and thoroughly patronised the famous muilterberries, blackberries, and wild strawberries, but these were all over, and evening chills he- raided the coming winter. I was talking to Ole-the ...

... Fisher is President of the National Skating Association, and has won its badge. And as for Old Blues, they are as common as blackberries at St. Stephen's. ...