... constables was walking down the Long Quay he saw the girl picking the clothes oft a line up there as if she were gathering black-berries. She stuffed the goods under her shawl, and then ran up a close and hid herself on a stair, where the police after some ...

... this country. Strange that strawberries should be yielding a second crop, and that in November, while the hedgerows contain blackberry bashes still showing blossom and green berries. It is further noteworthy that in the early part of the week harvesting ...

... But there was no sign of any house. The tall, dark hawthorn hedges, with their lighter undergrowth of wild rose bushes and blackberry vines, hemmed them in. The harsh, rasping notes of a corncrake sounded near, the mellow low of a cow came from an adjacent ...

... young, healthy, and strong. Yes, Sir, in the good old days of two hundred years ago centenarians were as plentiful as blackberries. Now, I know that some of your readers will say that this is all bosh. Well, let us put it to the test. I'll give names ...

... and we must suppose that she was scarce in the old merry days. Then at l'ilichaelintis the Devil puts his foot on the blackberries, and great ill-luck was supposed to follow if anyone ate the berries after September 29th. There are many variants of ...

... trap, and called out: Where ie it you aut to go to in Deptford? You diciu't tell me; it's a big place, houses as thick as blackberries. Seventy-eight, I)otilielrlX, is the address, said Lucy, speaking us distinctly as she could. trap closed again with ...

... he net. Marjory Brown sauntering along with a basket full of blackberries. Evenin', Marjie, he said, with a nervous clutch at his forelocks. I say, you 'are got some prime blackberries, an' no error. Evenin', Joe, remarked Miss Brown calmly, passing ...

... tinsel and romance shorn away. I'll tell you what, anyhow, he concluded, viciously, I'm not going to roost out under a blackberry bush all night and catch my certain death of cold for all the thrones in Europe. I think the sentiment of the party was ...

... CANADA Betty's uncle, who was a school teacher, met her in the street one day, and asked her if she were going blackberrying with a party of her young friends he had come across a little earlier. No, I ain't going. Oh, my dear, said her uncle, you ...

... tonight. Twenty Minutes for refreshments! bawled the guard, as he passed down the platform. The little girl with the blackberry jam on her chin hailed him. You needn't stop the train on our account, she said We're going to eat ours in the ear!imp ...

... without her, like a disturbed ant-bill. That will soon right itself, my dear. House-keepers are plentiful in London as blackberries in autumn. We will send to a registry office for another. to-morrow. But she will not be able to help you with your literary ...

... The Quest of Wisdom. What wisdom she had she did not pick off the hedge, like blackberri e s. God is Liu kind to give away wisdom after that useless fashion. Sr. she had to earn her wisdom, and to wok hard, and suffer much ere ape attained Ir. And in ...