... determined to keep) up ber spirits, and the next -morning started off, singing, with h basket on her arm, to sjearohbfor blackberries. There was no one in sight asshe ,pa~eea the parsonage, going to the woods beyond. But a pair of brown eyes had been watching ...

... 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 ...

... Councils willing, to risk public money in buySing, nothing can happen, though would- be yeomen farmers were as plentiful as blackberries. A year ago Parlia- ment was equally busy over the Irish Land Purchase Bill, but now it is assumed as a matter of course ...

... and reads the betting, lie will see that bets of teos thousand, eight thousand, five thousand, and so on are as common as blackberries in autunln. But that is not all the expense attendant on a journey to Epsom. On the downs one sees hundreds of coaches ...

... clergyman correspondent of a contemporary writes from Oriel describing spring walik through a Buckinghamshire lane, arched by blackberry bushes dcc. A robin Jew round his hat several times. It claimed his attention, and he followed it to a spot in the hedge ...

... treatment we received either from a financial or artistic point of view, princes, counts, and barons being as plentiful as blackberries in October, while the general public was extremely enthusiastic when they became more conver- sant with the jocularities ...

... 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 ...

... Powder Magazine, and is ott the othier pits L-side bordered by bratuble bushes, ftutu which Al eatho boys wvere pioeliug blackberries, leaving trill .ethe rod and green berries intersuingled with seeso d tle flowers for future raiding. Thle eakso, M buffeted ...

... forget the Iclaims of the humble blackberry. It .may .be laid down as a grencral rule, adds Mr. Oldlield, i' that the vwild vegetables, such as Ithoenettle, and the wild frait, such ns the whin- Ibeiry and the blackberry, have the great ad- I vantage ...

... Oxford. They are canny folk at St. Asaph, and hold their Diocesan Conference not when such gatherings are plentiful as blackberries and there is no chance of notice in the papers, but in the dullest period of the year. The gathering at Bala this week ...

... its still veu'laiit foliage dotted al lit tk over Iwitil brighlt uand listrous fulit-, and1( do0wnJ toi ait its foot tile blackberry hranibijhle trikil ahbout 171 with ileirsilvey white, lulosseos 1111( fruit il Ml every stage t ipeness 1111( ukrialI iS ...

... cousutry lasse leading- straight lees away to Vtse Beechses, at the distance of a, mile thle or mile and a half. You eamy pick blackberries sowl its you saunter along, or pull down a hunch of Is nuts, or stand for at susment to admire Sense of lrar the beautiful ...