... other. It used to be a regular thing in October to stop the train before entering the tunnel to enable the driver to pick blackberries, and in this pleasant occupation the passengers usually joined. On the Cambrian route I have known a train come back to ...

... regret. For she prized her teachers, and knew that though French instructresses were as plentiful as fiies in summer, or blackberries in autumn, there were very few like little Mademoiselle Verdier. For your own sake I must congratulate you, she said but ...

... town. We don't know yet how it will work in the country districts, but I am certain that it would be as easy to pick rípii blackberries to-day in Roatu Park aa to get a penny shave in the whole of Cardiff, except Li one or two shops. No, he con- tinued, ...

... oarons. The baronets I had not time to count, and as for knights (of the common or jubilee species) they were as thick as blackberries. In addition I beheld dignitaries of the Church, generals iu the army, admirals, corporals, the Solicitor-Gonaral and.several ...

... every mau is a Mi.jor DobUn—and the fairest maiden wakes up to the humiliating discofery that husbands do not grew like blackberries. once knew a maiden lady of the respect- able nge of 87. Her memory was a little gone and she. useu tr tell me the same ...

... i who wouid undertake at five minutes' notice to take command of the Channel Fleet, Bless you such man are as common as blackberries in autumn. We have got fine specimens of them in the Echo Office, and they can be seen any day free of charge, arrayed ...

... followed the scriptural maxim of a liberal use of the rod, but the attractions of cinder heaps, fine weather, and uuts and blackberries in the hedges proved ton much. During the bearing of the cases Mr H. Phillips discovered that even in school board matters ...

... and a tish line hid away in my pocket. There's the very closet Aunt Zillah used to lock me in when she caught me stealing blackberry jam—the same window, with the same mended pane of glass in th left hand corner, under which I listened nights, when the ...

... had stated on a previous occasion that he was about 12 or 13,-The elder Collins said that she and her sister were out blackberrying on the day in question in a field adjoining the Celynfach Firni. W i',o they were engaged in gathering the berries a boy ...

... BLACKBERRYING INCIDENT AT BETTVVS. Mrs Susannah Richards, wife of a resident of Bettws, told the Newport county magistrates, in petty sessions assembled to-day, that on Thurs- day week she went blackberrying around the churchyard at Bettws, where a sheep-dog ...

... host, that I had come across some fresh bear tracks that morning. Very Iike)y, said he, for the bears are thicker than blackberries hereabouts this summer. Thereupon he told me the following incident, as an illustration of his statement that bears, instead ...

... No thirty-six in addition to the band. They can't find enough men even for picket duty. o I They're as plentiful as blackberries. There was someone down from Birmingham last week, a philan- thropist he is, and offered to find five hundred Ikemen. The ...