... effigy, nor Bristol in reality. Women WOMEN against the world. Of books it is hard to speak for they come upon us plenty as blackberries and yet leave time to the leading authors of the day to get up leading articles for every magazine that—shall we say swims ...

... beloved country. He had to contend against a great deal in his district, for the infamous copperheads were as thick as blackberries, and he often felt as if he would like thrashinga man to be a Christian virtue, that he might have the privilege of digging ...

... These last are very fond of the beech mast. Bullfinches are very scarce this flight, principally owing to the blight in the blackberry time. There has never been known such a scarcity of these berries these 30 years. Siskins have not yet arrived, but this ...

... came into use. A Mr. Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out a patent for tan- ning from the roots, stems, and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring and, after preparation, he stales, quilt; equal to oak bark. ere and evil so nearly balanced ...

... saffron butterfly appears. Hips and haws now ornament the hedges. The berries of the briony and the privet, the barberry, the blackberry, the holly, and the elder, from which is made the famous winter wine of old Eng- land's peasantry, with sloes, bullaces ...

... a pair of shoes attended the Epping Hunt yesterday. The coaches, cabs, and carts on the Essex road were as plentiful as blackberries, and were drawn by horses of all sorts and sizes, consisting principally o — or,, Higghng, jiggling, Hiesledy, piggledy ...

... that if the grace o' God has nae changed your heart, your face proclaims ye a most tremendous rogue! - - - Have you any blackberry pies? asked a hungry traveller of the mistress of a ,tumbh-down shanty by the roadside in one of the upper counties of ...

... of a Poor man's family, have contributed to establish the beer shops and Dowlais, which in these places are plentiful as blackberries. Knowing the many evils arising from the old practice of payment, Sir John Guest has made arrangements for the substitution ...

... induced the prosecutrix to go down a path with him in the neighbourhood of Liswerry, under the pretext of purchasing some blackberries which she was vending, when he threw her on a bank, and attempted to take indecent liberties, but was prevented by the ...

... the mush- rooms, boil up for two minutes; serve the sauce over the outlets. This sauce is sufficient for seven outlets. BLACKBERRY WnM.—TalM twelve quatte _of befriei When fully ripe, and crush them with: the hand. Boil ilix gallons of water with twelve ...

... another world. The deciding party is not to be dragooned into either of these alternatives. Ifreasons were as plenty as blackberries, this prolific year for such food, he could not give one: and, moreover, h(J probably thinks, that as trigger-pulling is ...

... cry, Who had had such an afternoon's thwacking as I? Just the old story. the bowling quite collared. Fours thick as blackberries. Lor how they hot- lared— Foodles, whose new•fangled notion of cricket Is score of two hundred and never a wicket! Hit ...