... wvomen's education owes its existense, and now that Girton is an accomplished fact, and women wranglers are as common as black-berries, it is but fair to Lady Stanley to acknowledge what she has done. All her children were with her in London on her. birthday ...

... country lanes and by some of the high roads re- mark-ably rich and large blackberries grew, but, as a friend said, grapes are so common that even children would not touch blackberries. I was always struck with the infectious boyish delight of the men when ...

... Linnesa and finches are in abundance; every bush almost contains the nest of a thrush; blackbirds are as plentiful as blackberries will be later oh; and it is no exaggeration to say that within twenty yards you may hear the notes of as many nightingales ...

... as. far advanced as Ralph, and made a dash to overtake him. Before he had done so, however, a bush laden with delicious blackberries attracted his attention, and he could not resist the temptation to stop, and gather some of the luscious fruit. He called ...

... lads. In my young days a boy with a pipe was about as rare as a two-necked swan; to-day the smoking lad ! is as common as blackberries: and I am old- ! fashioned enough to prefer the older to the more recent state of things. Any boy of sense would consider ...

... ic note of alarm, when all play ceases. TrE PHEASANT AT nOMIE. A few days prior to the advent of October, I when the blackberries hang luscious on the brambles, and the brown nuts drop from the rlusters, the keeper gloes, as is his wont, to the coppice ...

... orchard and garden is five miles we- of Denver, has a splendid five-acre orehard of appless. peats, plums, strawberries, blackberries, and currants, and has sold his crop this year for £1,200, the working exppeuses being £300. Mr. J. Green, Villa Park Post ...

... the bird to the hedge. There I found a, half-fledged bird which had evidently fallen out of the nest. It was hanging on a blackberry thorn, which had pierced the skin of its back. The bird was not otherwise iijured, and was kicking vigorously suspended ...

... strawberries wee I plentiful as a wild fruit in the woods, and were t brought to towns and solHI in shops and mar. t Iets blackberries frsequently are nowadays. rhere is a copy of a poem in the British f If se m library, by John Lydgate, that was written ...

... affectionate ents' greetings to her glorious hills and vales, which hold a orth lasting Place among our happiest memories. Ripe blackberries have already bee found in the island, so0, possibly, you may find some, early as it is for thils autumnal fruit, inl the ...

... captain, and ont hor throat w ith a razor. . BLACKLEY MYSTERY. Throe lads resident in Blaokley on Sunday set out in search of blackberries, and While they wore engaged in the hunt for the berries a sudden shower caused them to seek shelter in A place called ...

... the deecased and some other boys istarted shortly after nine o'clock on Satarday morning tor Aintrec. They were gathering blackberries during the day, About half-past four witness and the deceased wore standing on the path near the Old Roan Bridge, Aintree ...