... Master Willie, and Orchid go to the post, the race will indeed be a treat to witness. Tips for the event are as plentiful as blackberries. The favourites with the talent just now are Grave and Gay and Earl's Seat, while in the neighbourhood of the course they ...

... awaken the slumberers in the fields with the melodies of their bronzen bells the hedges are thick with the ripest of juicy blackberries, large luscious melons are for sale (a penny each) in all the village shops, and cocks and hens make piteous appeal to ...

... to the public. A new joy has been added to the breakfast-table. The logan berry, a cross between the rasp berry and the blackberry, makes the most delicious jam, and is a distinct novelty. The flavour is that of the finest raspberry, but the disagreeable ...

... steeplechasing. The Abominable. In this country and the colonies right honourables and honourables are as plentiful as blackberries. There has been but one individual who could boast of. being known as ''The Abominable, and he was a foreign prince. He ...

... snow was five feet deep on the hill-side. They brushed the snow away with feet and nose, finding luscious whortleberries, blackberries, and raspberries in great quantities. The lowest authentic record at the barracks was fifty-seven degrees below zero, yet ...

... disposal of the Minister of the Interior has simplified the precautions for public safety. Sentries will be posted as thick as blackberries in autumn all over the course, and the entire race is to be organised on strictly military lines down to the magnificent ...

... K. Cunliffe's Double Harness pair, Sam Weller and Buckingham Gentleman, 2nd prize. 3. Mr. J. C. Pike's bitch, Broxholme Blackberry, winner of Silcer Bowl for best bulldog. 4. Single Harness Class under 14.2 hands. 5. Mrs. Hartley Batt's Tandem, Lady ...

... Miss Skeggs and Lady Blarney in the Vicar of Wakefield, we are bound to believe that beautiful women are as common as blackberries, only more so. In the columns devoted by newspaper editors to the meanderings of those intelligent persons, male and female ...

... beanfeasters about and had overheard this scrap of dialogue. Bill to Eliza What are those red things in the hedge Eliza Blackberries, of course. Bill: But they're red. How can black berries be red Eliza Stupid Don't you know that black berries are always ...

... supplies equally pure and deliciously flavoured home-made jams, such as hot-house pineapple, stoned cherry, straw berry, blackberry, and damson cheese, a pot of each of which include in your Yuletide hamper this Christmas and receive, as I know you will ...

... weights this year have been compiled by Messrs. Topham, who, by-the- bye, run the show. Tips for the race are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, but in this particular race you want to take them with a fall barred. I shall, at this early stage of the pro ...

... Magdalen had wandered so far and constantly that she knew every haunt of the sweet rough-rinded hazel-nuts, the dark purple blackberries (which in their season the birds ate so freely that every grey rock and boulder was spotted as though a whole army of ...