... statement that as a nation we are far more bitterly hated by the French than are tlhe tem- porarily victorious Germans. Growing blackberries and mushrooms, by law, are not private property. You may be prose- outed for trespass on land where they grow, but not ...

... amongst their friends idly. Spenser, View of the State of Ireland. Shall the blessed Son of Heaven prove a micher And eat blackberrys? A question not to be asked. (Shakespeare, King Henry IV., Act 2, Sc. 4. Sure she has some mecching rascal in her house-some ...

... day that boy was jumping a hedge when down he came again. Oh, said his master, if you want half a day's holiday to go blackberrying say so, but don't take it out of my time ...

... not be forgotten in our grateful appreciation of the brilliant conductor of the evening. More epigrams The wits grow like blackberries in autumn. They deck the very hedgerows with the glittering sparkle of their satire I confess I do not see the point in ...

... beholds a man bound to a wheel which appears to be ever revolving. To us who regard cyclists as no greater curiosities than blackberries the spectacle cannot be astounding. But we have most of us read of the Chinese, who look upon adventurous wheelmen dashing ...

... happened one warm afternoon last August. A tall, lank, barefooted man came into the store with a gallon pail filled with blackberries which he exchanged for three quarts of molasses. He carried a stout hickory walking-stick in one hand, and when he departed ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT TO A BLACKBERRY PICKER. A boy, eight years of age, named Samuel Mellin, son of James Mellin, colljer, Melin- orythan, was blackberrying near the Eagles- bush Foundry, Melincrytfian, on Thursday even- ing. Reaching over a stream he overbalanced ...

... plovers, with marrowbones and Welsh rabbit to follow; the hunt-breakfast at JactdHarkaway's wherein ortolans were plentifulas blackberries all these occasions won the honour of a chalk mark on the tablets of memory. Your hosts had discharged the duties of h ...

... this sass, and always asked them to come agin. Once Mr and Mrs Hayson asked pop and ma to come out and see them, and pick blackberries, so pop he gets a rig and goes out with ma, expecting to have a gay old time but when they got there the whole mboodle ...

... shooting they arrived at a hedge of a peculiar character. The peculi- arity of it was that it bore bottles of Bass instead of blackberries. And they sat down to rest and smoke and talk. Behind them lay a huge bag with many comely Partridges snugly ensconced ...

... with prosecution for fathering blackberries on a piece of uncultivated hillside. It seems that the cottagers for some distance around have earned a. few shillings of late years by gathering and selling tha blackberries, and the prohibition inflicts c ...

... Albert Cumuiings (33), carpenter, whose body with two deep I(a.shes in the throat was di. covered by two children whilst blackberrying on Saturday. Twelve and SIXpence and a silver watch and chain were found on the body. The deceased had been unemployed ...