... delicious light on the fields and green herbage of the middle distance. A girl and her little brother have been gather- ing blackberries, a magnificently-painted basket of which forms an important feature of the composition. The child in his eagerness has ...

... elk and killed him ; here I enjoyed glorious salmon-trout fishing, and thoroughly patronised the famous muilterberries, blackberries, and wild strawberries, but these were all over, and evening chills he- raided the coming winter. I was talking to Ole-the ...

... NOTE ON NEWS. Now that Whitsuntide is SXBKCING nr. at the door, and cyclists RtoxoMSTa. will be as numerous as blackberries throughout the country, it will interest them to learn of an ingenious, but not particularly creditable, method of making money ...

... have told wl.v. but hi. ^ly imagination sketched 0 a prettv m-:n,i -ict.irc of this brown-han-ed maiden gathering nuts or blackberries in a Devonshire c [ane; it seemed to accord with her style better h than a London ball-room. -e JI •'Quite in the fens ...

... fact. Of six-year-old children entering Eoston (Mass.) schools sixty per cent. have never seen a robin, growing corn, blackberries, or potatoes; scventy-onc per cent. do not know beans (doubtless their fellows soon teach thiea, mceaphorically at any ...

... cram of aill instruc- 3 tions 'sbout milk, cheese, butter, leather. etc. - f Over 60 per cent had never seen growing corn, blackberries, or potatoes, seventy-one per cent r did not know beans-even in Boston: and in 109 other topics primers generally presuppose ...