... , and decided upon exercising the garrisons instead. Sober-minded Frenchmen, unfortunately, are a good deal rarer than blackberries just at present. The inevitable inference will be that the Government are afraid to hold the manceuvres, and the Nationalist ...

... information ( about me.. At a& little place nineteen miles from Portland I concealed myself in a field. Two men came in blackberrying, and I had to get out. They asked me where I was go- ing. I said to,' Blandford.' They volun- teered to show me the way ...

... fire-beater of Livesey, near Blackburn, returned home and died on Sunday. lt transpired that he had had a feast of acorns and blackberries. A powerfully-builtnegro has for several months been a source of terror in North. ampton. On Mondayhe was sent bo four ...

... STAGE HISTORY OF RIP VAN WINKLE. Plays on this marvellous legend, as met forth by Washington Irving, are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, and though in some small points they may differ in essentials they are all very much alike. The history of Rip ...

... r~ol'ers. Prinilroses Wished you. 'Peacef'ul. Ilusebrezels and h5eather or )ittle sea tnaids wislled you Happy. Y-lathets anst blackberries anid evers'thiusi out of season visheed you Bright. Merry ?? nravests't The. robin knevw riat. -c cleric agaillst i > ...

... his son to fight for the old laud that was for himselfonlya distant mem~ory of daisied meadows and hedges where hie went blackberrying forty or fifty years ago. The old lady with himn must have remembered her own courting days as she saw her stalwart son ...