... named Cummings, and j proceeded through Bickleigh Vale, the well- known pic-nicking spot, with the intention of picking blackberries. They entered the woods I near the Lea Moor China Clay Works, where there is a, private railway in connection with tho ...

... rural parts of Eng- laud and Wales are not more thickly populated than they are, for any amount of fruits, like nnts and blackberries, are wasted every year in the country for the want of people to gather and make use of them. I see the bushes of the nut- ...

... Pritcha.rd and the girl at homo. The smoke from the burn- ing building attracted the attrition of two men who were gathering blackberries, Llewellyn Williams, seaman, a native of the locality, and Phineas Rowlands, labourer, and they hurried to the spot to ...

... Mr Gayton, as he ruefully rubbed his sore arm. Officer Jones, of Bassalep, said the widow was in the habit of pilfering blackberries, mushrooms, turnip-tops, and swede-tops—anything that came in her way and the Bench decided on a fine, with the alternative ...

... made known at the time, but is believed to be as follows -I, Mr David Phillips's Maid of the Moun- tain 2, Mr J. John's Blackberry Jam; 3, Mr H. Reynolds's Black Bess. OPEN PONT RACE (13 hands and under distance, one milo three ran).-I, Mr J. Ebsworth's ...

... near Dover, has, it is believed, been kidnapped. The child, with her sister, went to Ewell Minnis two days ago to pick blackberries, but the sister lost sight of her, and nothing has since been heard of her. Ewell Minnis Common is much frequented by tramps ...

... nuts and their accompanying foliage. Amongst the favourite ai*tificial fruits for mil- linery we shall most probably note blackberries and red currants, as well as tiny pears and apples. The ideas seems rather incongruous in our opinion. Ostrich plumes and ...

... hedge being, as all tthe village knows, a famous one for blackberries and at this time of year (September) as we walk along there in these pleasant evenings we are sure to see many children blackberrying, with rosy cheeks and tell-tale lips. To our right is ...

... surrendered the license as there were so many there.-Mr A. J. Stevens said that the houses there were nearly as thick as blackberries, and it was unfortunate that the licences of some were not surrendered.—The Mayor Cannot you find a more salubrious neigh- ...

... foundest respect, and shall always endeavour to profit by such criticism. But ready made critics, who are as plentiful as blackberries at this season, forcibly recall to memory BYRON'S apt, though hackneyed, couplet:— A man must serve bis time to every trade ...

... onjeach side, where I and my companions have often romped and gathered ferns from nooks and crannies in summer time and blackberries in autumn. Just outside the wall is a beautiful well of clear spring water, which issues into a tiny stream with watercresses ...

... called Highfield. The Hall is occupied by Mr Wirmald. There are green fields about us in which grow mushrooms, and there are blackberries in the hedges. When the trees are in bud the scenery is pretty, and when the leaves are falling as well. From the hills ...