... 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 ...

... everywhere, with, of course, harebells, foxgloves, and the handsome yellow field matguerites. This is a splendid place for blackberries, and for those little berries which grow near the ground, the juice of which is supposed to have been 1 the ancient Briton's ...

... 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 ...

... neighbour, Percy Gately. We wett -to the end of a 6very long lane. The birds were singing, the cows ,gwere mooing, and the blackberries were rips. When we came to the -end of the lanle we came to a~stile. ,j We had to climb over, and then 'we came to a bridge ...

... varied experiences will be eagerly read, Iand will, I trust, be as much enjoyed by the boys and girls as was the delicious blackberry jelly by [tunt Mary and myself. Ellen Vannia, October 17. Dear Uncle and Aunt Mary,-This lovely bright Ccvtber morning wings ...

... 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 ...