... “Bending with tluee-pronged fork in a garden uprooting potatoes.” What years they were then! Great books clustered like blackberries in every publisher’s list, and I am, of course, taking account of but a few of the most typical. Think of a year like 1850 ...

... Canadian Prelate was surrounded a small army of white-robed clergymen, and doctor* of divinity were almost as plentiful as blackberries. Here in the quiet and cool aisles of the Cathedral, the various clerical processions were formed. From nine till eleven ...

... hands of our citizen soldiers cannot be doubted. In fact this year possibles in the various competitions were common as blackberries, with the result that some of the scores of last year were counted out. It would seem that the accuracy of the Lee-Metford ...

... Burr. Apples- Geo. Oliphniit. iiaa|js, Mrs Barclay. Largest strawberries. James Burr. Strawberries, flavour, Mrs Barclay, blackberries, Robert Anderson, White currants, A. MTiobbie. Yellow goose, berries, Miss Cowie Vecktaulks.— Collection of vegetables ...

... JOURNAL. TUESDAY, November 16, 1897. Candidates for vacant churches Candidates seem presently to be as thick for autumn blackberries. Like The Kirk, vultures to the spoil, they come flocking on the shortest notice from all points of the compass. The public ...