... mysteriously as 1 passed, and was hedged with broom and furze and bramble. . Here and there you might see a cluster of late blackberries high out of reach and shining in the sun. December as it is, the whole day -shone. It was such a day as gives you gleams ...

... invasion in the direction of Northlleet,'while tea gardens sprang up everywhere, and billiard tables became as plentiful as blackberries. A quarter of a mile westward from the town, few places presented 'an appearance of greater sterility and desolation than ...

... in the awkwardly named raspberry-cum-blackberry originatednear Manchester. But these rivals have diversities of excellence, because the English fruit is a hybrid between the raspberry and the British blackberry, while one of. the parents of the Logan ...

... arms spectral against the deepening blue; Being so near I had not the heart to turnaback. The hill was rough-a tangle of blackberry vines; here and there little paths started, only to end in nothing. After two or three false attempts I gave up the paths ...

... that blackberries were wanted up at the house for blackberry-cheese . . . at the current price ? A young woman with a baby in a perambulator came round out of the high road as I reached the garden gate. Yes, she lived at the cottage. Blackberries ? Yes ...

... Wagner, from the concert poill of view, has been very. much overdone; and a Wagner night is i1oW at common as au autumn blackberry. For somne time to come the prurdet manager of concerts will need to use his Wagner very judiciously, cvel al a cook with ...

... everything; the backward glance, in most cases, weakness and folly.' A few blackberries still linger, but the'y are flavourless without the I witchery of the sun. No blackberry should be eaten until the sun has warmed it; then only you have the true flavour ...

... Mercury, some years ago by the late Donald Nicoll, a Sheriff of the City of London. Mr. Nicoll when a lad was gathering blackberries in the lanes around Kensington Palace, when a girl on a donkey stopped and involuntarily exclaimed, How I should like some ...

... of Mr. Fezziwig’s ball and Scrooge's nephew's party. At one time, too, dramatizations of the 44 Carol ” were as thick as blackberries in September. One served to emancipate Mr. Toole (as Bob Cratcbit) from extravaganza, while another, in the opinion of ...

... school is shut up, and they are having Church and extra holidays. It is, no doubt, very pleasant Chappell just now, when the blackberries are hanging thick in the lanes. But, probably, the arrangement does not wholly suit the parents. It has all come about ...

... stubbly have long prevailed, and even the gleaner—l saw band of gleaners early in the month, they were eating dessert of blackberries at a hedge root and had their tiny sheaves, which in the North are called dollies, lying at their feet —has ceased labour ...

... NATURALIST.^ Good father, said > Talry'brtwS .,d out ,0,00 Ut *Ah said I. ». them every m°rmng as to for me t 0 , p , •« blackberries looked the bluish-purple digus cxi September those same are gettiug over ripe. the very . from which j knew that fingers ...