... the hope that they might drop through on the heads of those inside. Pepper was in his element-heads being as plentiful as blackberries, and much easier to get at. But it would take more than the fear of a cracked cranium to deter his fellow-townsmen from ...

... prove to have been at all invariably attended by injury to the fruit. The crop is reckoned half an average. Iledgenuits, blackberries, and mushrooms are plentiflith Vt of England this season, and the great abundance of ordinaryh nu'tsi remarked from other ...

... their bill of fare then is an agree- able contrast to the luxuries of the coops and the feeding-whistle. The pheasant likes blackberries, sloes, haws, seeds of various kinds, tender leaves, and insects. How the old-fashioned hedgerow offers all these I And ...

... you must plant flowers for them. Bees fly far afield in search of such forage as white clover, apple blossoms, heather, blackberry blossoms, and the flowers of the lime tree can supply. What they like best is a flower which, besides being a good pro. ...

... Porthlo nestles on the hillside. Then, leaving Carn Marvel and Sandy Bar, with the slopes between alive with fern and juicy blackberries, we cross the Roads, our pilot assuring the nervous that the terrible Dammy Sin- ncrs ledge is well to windward. Away ...

... of the lieutenant, who calls out the number of the flags forming the signal he wishes to make. BLACKBERRYING' Our picture with the title Blackberrying takes us into the heart of some lovely English county. Husband and wife with their seven or eig ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... carpeted with bracken, with here and there a bright-coloured gorse-bush or-prickly bramble, laden in autumn with luscious blackberries. In the spring the ground is bright with acres of bluebells, primroses, and violets. In summer the woods are alive with ...

... the growers, whq have no har~estingy expenses, or storage-room rent, or any indefinite period to wait for their money. BLACKBERRIES This wild fruit is so plentiful this year by hedgerow and copse and on moor and common, that correspondents are asking ...

... jostled each other on the high road to fame; when beautiful women, be they duchesses or fruit-girls, were as frequent as blackberries. Yet they had all passed out of sight but for him who had magic enough to transform what had else been a mere memory into ...

... number ot eminent lawyers who have been distinguished in literature is not great. Bacons have not been exactly as common as blackberries, and the list of Chancellors, Chief Justices, or learned jurists in general, who have made their mark in letters, does ...