... been rather more than winked at. I saw a gang last year at Portland going to their work by the sea talking and picking blackberries as they went, and I was glad to observe it. I have always advocated more opportunities of salutary speech for prisoners ...

... happened to be engaged, however menial it might be. Ile denied that he punished the two lads in the field, when they had been blackberrying, so as to draw blocd. The only time in which he used the birch was in the case of the boy Davis, on May 2. Ile never used ...

... their pockets with the fruit, went in swimming, took a tramp of about four miles after the cows, picking ten quat ts of blackberries on the way, went to a cot nroast in the evening, followed by an old-fashioned breakdown in the kitchen, and another rcund ...

... trade must be very much more than very slope —a scent of blackberry pie on a home-bleached tablecloth in the average commercial traveller. a little Southern cottage. Children are picking the blackberries Foreign residents in Japan have , of cou rse, expressed ...

... -Dart:-legged and adventurous I set out . to climb that mighty cliff in quest of the lilies that grow bigger and the tempting blackberries that grow more luscious there than anywhere else. A drowsy snake, disturbed in its rest on a sun-baked cleft where mortal ...

... to the blackberry season. That fruit has, it appears, been excei - tionally good this year, and twenty tons a day from our own counties have been pouring into Covent Garden. The paragraph goes on to tell us : The demand for French blackberries has co ...

... swindlers if our lads and lasses had the help confession gives ? I live where confessional boxes arc as plentiful as blackberries, and the result last year for the province of Naples, containing 1,182,861 inhabitants, was : Murders, 341= 2297 per ICO ...

... record of heat ant unshine ; hut, as compensation, it has ripened Pr. by M. Victor Betia the corn and hi tght hops and blackberries—not to mention flistory of a Kiss. (Unwin.) 55. C c owmf, A_NPREW REID. The . Heinemann. , RAND bARAII. The fenor ...

... public-houses in rural areas, where they are not numerous, with the number in the towns, where they are often thick as blackberries, is to render the return, as a means of discovering the proportion of public-houses to the population, most AUGUST 8, 1899 ...

... authorised programme. This suggests obvious development=. Jr these days, when centuries at cricket are as plentiful as blackberries, we shall soon have the outfielders on bicycles, whilst it might even be useful and restful for the batsmen. We are not ...