... and decided upon exercisinrg the garrisons instead. Sober-minded Frenchmen, unfortunately, are a good deal rarer than blackberries just at present. l he inevitable inference will be that the Government are afraid to hold the manocuvres, and the Nationalist ...

... information ( about me.. At a& little place nineteen miles from Portland I concealed myself in a field. Two men came in blackberrying, and I had to get out. They asked me where I was go- ing. I said to,' Blandford.' They volun- teered to show me the way ...

... has not the gift of getting confidences out of other people, nor are interesting specimens such as this one as common as blackberries in September. But the book is so shrewd and alive, it gives so admirably the outlook of the Hooligan, and shows you how ...

... fire-beater of Livesey, near Blackburn, returned home and died on Sunday. lt transpired that he had had a feast of acorns and blackberries. A powerfully-builtnegro has for several months been a source of terror in North. ampton. On Mondayhe was sent bo four ...

... trade might be driven in these wild berries, bringing in money anO pleasure to village folk, for ev ry child loves blackberry jam, and blackberry pudding is food lor the gods when eaten with thick yellow cream. Here is a clear case of wastefulness. Butter ...

... UNALTEPREI) RATE. THE TRAMII-MEN'S AGITATION. 110V RESEl.RV ES WILL BE TREATDI). Wrenching themrselves from the joys of blackberrying and stag-hunting, London County Councillors have, raturned with renewed vigour to town. Yesterday, in high spirits, they ...

... of great heights beyond. A bank covered with the scarlet and copper, bronze and purple of briars and the shining jet of blackberries basks in the warn sun. They call it Deadman's Bank, this peaceful, sunshiny place, with a curious suggestion *of horror ...

... at intervals upon the boulders to the effect that a stretcher may be obtained near at hand is distinctly depressing. The blackberries are over now, but as we returned through the woods we gathered armfuls of hawthorn to arrange in an old blue vase at home ...

... STAGE HISTORY OF RIP VAN WINKLE. Plays on this marvellous legend, as met forth by Washington Irving, are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, and though in some small points they may differ in essentials they are all very much alike. The history of Rip ...

... his son to fight for the old laud that was for himselfonlya distant mem~ory of daisied meadows and hedges where hie went blackberrying forty or fifty years ago. The old lady with himn must have remembered her own courting days as she saw her stalwart son ...