... Another evidence of the mildness of tbe season. A correspondent, writing from Hastings, says he has on his table a spray of blackberries which was gathered last week in the immediate vicinity of Hastings. There are upwards of 30 berries, 13 of them being quite ...

... have had a deal of work to accom- plish, but have notwithstanding performed it to the satisfaction of all. To-morrow is Blackberry Friday. The school children of Northumberland claim it as a holiday, and the teachers do not very strongly resist the claim ...

... in tbe Isle of Man. *£Erd.y . fanner -sasaWe to gather abrendi i large bramble bosh, having quite a number S^j^eveloped blackberries upon it. It has been announced from a Swansea Valley lit that the Galatians and the Welsh are of The same family, and ...

... nothing that man don't know. In the London markets plums and damsons are almost over, but there is a bounteous supply of blackberries, and also plenty of cr_nberries to cook with tbem, thereby counteracting their well-known medicinal properties. Mount Ararat ...

... sister, a.s they were coming home hand in hand from the dreary village churchyard, where the nettles aud burdock and trailing blackberry vines had been cleared away to make a grave for Ira Kempfield' s wife, will they put you and me in hit. tioles in the churcii ...

... long, ?? Gra- tia, meekly: only till I get a situation Humph! said Mrs Homer, drily. Situa tions don't grow like blackberries on every bush. Now you're beginning to cry again— dear me! No, said Gratia, courageously, wiping away the tears. JDo ...

... right — no parents or cranky aunts and guardians to cut up. f^dch prizes in the marriage lottery are about as -N-nty as blackberries in December. But there is a woman who love's me and who is kind to me. I can't afford to make her angry. 'You love her ...