... hurt. Thankee, miss, no, replied Sam, touching his hat. I was pitched clean into the hedge and fell soft, barring tse blackberry bushes ; but I'm so grate- ful to think you've escaped, Miss Avice, thanks to this gentleman. I made sure you'd be killed ...

... a wheel in the roadway disturbs the quiet; I old horses, and skittish ponies put their velvet noses over the glistening blackberry- bushes and sniff at the passer by as though they know it is the day of rest, and can afford a . little impudence; and sunburnt ...

... Wandsworth Prison and, tte bridge near the Freemasons' Schools, and to have wandeted up and down the embankment in search of blackberries. Just before five p.m., Arthur Alexander Warner, in attempting to cross the line, was by some means knocked down by a passenger ...

... thickets? In sullmmer time these straggling hedgerowvs are the bird-nester's happy hunting ground. This year there has been no blackberry harvest. Perhaps there never are such ?? now as, im - warnl days of bygone autunins. used to ripen on these w-andering brambles ...

... They atre delicious in Or If tarts and puddings, but, for dietetic reasons, pro ~should always be combined with blackberries or aim g blackberry jam when being prepared for the 'rac mtable, o ...

... determined to keep) up ber spirits, and the next -morning started off, singing, with h basket on her arm, to sjearohbfor blackberries. There was no one in sight asshe ,pa~eea the parsonage, going to the woods beyond. But a pair of brown eyes had been watching ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... and reads the betting, lie will see that bets of teos thousand, eight thousand, five thousand, and so on are as common as blackberries in autunln. But that is not all the expense attendant on a journey to Epsom. On the downs one sees hundreds of coaches ...

... clergyman correspondent of a contemporary writes from Oriel describing spring walik through a Buckinghamshire lane, arched by blackberry bushes dcc. A robin Jew round his hat several times. It claimed his attention, and he followed it to a spot in the hedge ...

... treatment we received either from a financial or artistic point of view, princes, counts, and barons being as plentiful as blackberries in October, while the general public was extremely enthusiastic when they became more conver- sant with the jocularities ...

... 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 ...