... BLACK- | BERRY HILL. | The annual encampment of the Ist Volunteer l Battalion heicesungin Rfiiment is this year h-.x' held at Blackberry Hill, b’{ trm‘““’“i of his Grace the Duke of Ratland, and a more suitable spot could scarcely be found in the county for ...

... reynard’s character, ha being 8o cantions that be is never caught in a job of this kind twice over, Two PrusoNs searching for 'blackberries near Brooksby last week came upon the remains of a fine badger that Lad evidently been wormed by a dog, who apparently ...

... multitudous feats of batsmanship. The cracks have had a grand time with the willow, “centuries” have been as common as autumn blackberries, and .the leaders possess quite phenomenal aggregates, Prince Ranjit.sin?lji, in particular, having far outdone anything ...

... function of fashion goes without saying. All the available Royalties were there: duchesses and countesses were as plentiful as blackberries, but it was noticed that there were some members of the avistocracy conspicuous by their absence. The gardens behind Devonshire ...

... blasphemy, are habitually tawls by the orators in ion. If they wer - taken seriously brofien heads would be plentiful as blackberries. S. Tag Vicarage of Hughenden, the only living in Mr, Coningsby Disraeli's gift, has been offered to the Rev. Robert Walter ...

... bill-berry before it is due-berry. Yeur father, tne elder-berry, would not have been such a gooseberry ; but you need not Jook black-berry, for I don't care a straw-berry, and I shan't pay you till Christmas-berry,” —2. A MISERLY OLD LADY kept anicn. One day ...

... jaws will not stand the hard labour of gnawing out the tough fibres of wood, so it bores into the pith of such shrubs as blackberry, elder, and syringa. The cells are a little less than half an inch long and about a sixth of an inch wide. There are about ...

... of these tins, Have our soil and climate so changed, then, that we cannot grow these fruits? American cherries, American blackberries, American everything! We can only suppose that our soil has ceased production. Yet we have vivid recollections of hedgerows ...

... looking her very best, Beautly unadorned ie all very well in its way, but even a Venus—and Venuses do not grow on every blackberry bush—cannot afford to dress dowdily. A wife’s carelessness of her personal appearance bas frequently proved the marring ...

... pears, ploms, cherries, apricots, peaches, | and nectarines sow two inches deep, similar to the puts. Seeds of mulberries, blackberries, and straw- ' berries can be sown half-an-inch deep in a warm positios outdoors. Sow a few bardy annusls, to | form a ...

... with the ground colour of the dress it is worn with. For rustic hats, bramble leaves, mixed with flowers and ripening blackberries, with knots of green velvet, form a suitable trimming. Bonnets are decreasing in size, and worn flatter on the head, and ...

... atter wiping his mouth as he had done his p n —on the lining of his coat, thereby inking his lips and turning them blue as blackberries—di he speak again. “Soft roe—nice and tasty; they come—as a boon —and blessing to—men ; the haddock —the bloater— and prime ...