... and somewhat marshy, hut this had encouraged the luxuriant growth of bushes. Willow and hazel and sumach, combined with blackberry and wild rose to produce masses of tangled leaf, and flower, and thorn, through which the deer and bull'alo had kept abundant ...

... made a detour, and, entering higher up, crept cautiously nearer and nearer till, sheltered by a huge clump of sloe and • blackberry bushes, he could both see and - hear. Have patience, Paul, Nora was say.; ing ; I somehow dread your speaking to papa ...

... have a blaze at the patridges, an' woodcocks, an' snipes, to say nothin' ov the wild duck an' teal, which's as thick as blackberries below there in the bottom fields. I've as good a right to 'em as Paul Roe, or John Maxwell has; they was made for the use ...

... r . Indeed! You have just come to the right place, then. Young ladies—such nice ones : too l—are as plentiful here as blackberries in season. For instance, there are three or four over there in one house. What a paradise that house must be. Who are ...

... skylark in the air, I list the murmur of the fountain. Back come the days of childhood when I plucked the sloe and wild blackberry, And heard the blackbird in the glen Beside the shores of Ballinderry. And thro' the blinding mist of tears That clouds ...

... the bushes, and then the, trooper saw that not only the face but the.z hands of the lad were stained with the juice of blackberries, and that he carried on one arm a basket well filled with the • fruit. Give me a hatful of berries and you shall have ...

... gatherers in the wood, the fair-haired daughters of our race. There grew the berries of fragrant blossom, the strawberries and blackberries, , the sweet-scented purple flower of the mountain mead, the cresses of the water, the verdant grass and the tender herb ...

... was a proper knowledge of lalackberries and crahawns, for they could feed pigs on crahawns, and give Gladstone a wipe with blackberry jam, and teach him the ultrasuperutilosity of Firbolgism (loud cheers). But I care not, said Mr. Barrow, flying the oratorical ...

... that murdhers me. It's for all the world like a mixthur you'd make with wather out of a puddle and the bruisin' of some blackberries. It nearly sickened me too, said Biddy. If I took another o' them dawny glasses of it, rejoined Mike, I'd be the ...

... close search. Further on was a spot she could hide in until the soldiers had left Corbally, and this spot was where the blackberry bushes grew thickest. Here the ditch had broadened out, lea % jug a clear space between the bushes on either side, a regular ...

... pensive, a little given to affecting a mild melancholiness, arch, and a trifle roguish, very wainhearted and constant. Blackberry Blossom is of the quiet, refined, intellectual type. He is thoughtful, a little inclined towards melancholy, gtentle, and ...

... of the IRISH EMERALD who would send him the following tunes for the ten-keyed melodeon: The Connaughtman's rambles; The blackberry blossom; Rolling in the ryegrass; Bonny Kate; My queen waltz; and When you and I were young, Maggie; for which he will be ...