... steep bank ex- tended for a quarter of a mile or so along the river, and was covered with a thick growth of shaggy grass, blackberry brambles, low bushes, and trees. The farther bank of the Douglas was only a couple of feet higher than the stream, and it ...

... description cf soil, although they are seen at their best in deep, holding ground-a. remark which is equally true of the common blackberry. Parsley. This is an invaluable subject of which one can scarcely have too much, and should be found in every garden. It ...

... ourselves and that picturesque procession. The Wise Fruit. Did it ever strike you what a lucky thing it is that the juicy blackberries whieh are so thick on the hedges this year do Dot grow upon tall trees ? [ do not mean that it is fortunate because as ...

... revelation of something that had passed. Eynsford sat on that rustic seat shivering icily. staring out upon the currant and blackberry bushes in front of him with nnconsiqjoas open eyes. Suddenly he jumped np aod swRSg uis naagrmmsbte Wsingais. I am worse ...

... springs of water are the houses of the squatters, of brick and of wood, picturesque and buried in trees and shrubs. Here the blackberry bramble riots, its long streamers laden with delicious fruit in autumn. The story of the take-in of the Besom maker has ...

... other things had been pledged with different people. Williams, when arrested, said he found the watches in a ditch when blackberrying. Gifts of watches and chains by Williams to various people were deposed to by witnesses. After counsel had addressed the ...

... and which had a sparkl- ing, musically-murmuring streamlet coursing through it towards the Trent. There were nuts and blackberries ripe for the plucking, and foxgloves in thousands, with their pretty pink and spotted blossoms, which in Scot- land are ...

... out quietly from the others and eat the food and go back to bed. It follows me around the meadow, and I give it nuts and blackberries, and sometimes bits of apple. When mother goes into the yard it comes to her and cries, and if she does not take notice ...

... good clothing, as the brambles grow in the wildest luxuriance, and are clawed like the paws of a panther. But, oh what blackberries may be gathered there large, sweet, luscious as mulberries. Moreover' the whole sank region is a paradise for birds of ...