... He the members of Assembly would not shuttlecock the Marriage question, and re-enact the farce of “the bonnie busi: of blackberries.” If they would not put forth their on this occasion they would de- cidedly be trampled on, and they deserved to be so ...

... was a rarity—a on a greater rarity——in | ing as of hard study. The Aneedote Book tells a England, Now they are plenty as blackberries. You ran searcely walk into a dining hou (provided it be story of a Doctor of Divinity, whom Mr. John Scott a good in the ...

... children appeared stricken in years on the day of their chris- tening. Grandfathers and grandmothers were as plentiful as blackberries. There was a gravity, a mute sobriety, about all the people, which might be traced, perhaps, to the solid and sombre style ...

... Dretfordand other villages in the county have deserted their stocking frames and betook themselves to the woods to gather blackberries, for which they find a ready mortal in Leicester, and realise more by this means than they can their usual occupations ...

... Radcliffe. of Warleigh, Devon, for firing at and wounding a girl of sixteen years old, named Maria Hicks, who was plucking blackberries ! Deatn or Str Epwarv Lees.—We have to record the death of Sir Edward Lees, which event took place on Thursday morning ...

... until lias the premises. When the Presbytery are called upon the proper time, will give reasons for our opinions as'plenty blackberries. (Hear, hear.) We will show that every allegation made against from beginning end is unfounded allegation, or founded in ...

... with the assistance two large soup tureens, the numerous dishes were all displayed. We had, among other luxuries, fresh blackberries and bonbons, tho latter were rattier dry, and hud, no doubt, travelled far. Each man had three pronged iron fork, and regular ...

... the agent, his answer was much in the style of his illastrious prototype, Sir John Falstaff— If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion,” As the agent has condescended on petty pecuniary items, I mast be excused ...

... accosted a member of the tribe, who seemed to be an intelligent young man. L observed him stopping very frequently to gather blackberries on the wayside, aud then, as if to make up for the delay which had been occasioned by the gratification of his childish ...

... that rather sho fasted thirty-six hours than beg food or lodgin four additional hours on i consecutively, lived haws and blackberries, and sle pt three nights at the back of aditeh, ia the neighbourhood of tho town; e that when she did obtain employment ...

... remember a gorgeous border of blossomed whins, and a to ” somewhat interspersed with speci- mens of the rerl Irish vine, called blackberry > as around almost every arable ing in breadth, to the taste of the owner, from one yard to ten having from time imme- ...

... A BLOOMER BALL transatlantic stct (says the Times), as sors within the last month of tho blackberries in every part of doctrine as far as Edin- have even spread to the good sense of their hearers by on them morality infringed , and the expen- evils in ...