... England badgers are still fairly numerous. On a fine, still day Of autumn, when Nature is arrayed in russet and yellow, the blackberries are nearly over, and the heavy over-night dew glistens diamond-like on every bramble leaf, a day of badger digging in some ...

... servation was kept, and, accord ing to the report, the goats, after eating up all the grass, tackled the elm, dewberry, blackberry, and crab-apple class of bushes as being the most tasty, while the hickory and ash were left to the last. The last- mentioned ...

... bristling with lime- smeared twigs. Bullfinches do not fall such easy victims, as they are much more wary. A bunch of ripe blackberries forms a useful lure, however, for this handsome red-breasted bird, so famous for his piping love-song in the springtime ...

... blue-berries, cloud-berries, wild strawberries, and rasp berries ana laver muunuain ciuiiueiiies, uiai Oil- uci lies, and blackberries. When feeding it is almost impossible to come within shot, the open country which they frequent during the day giving their ...

... relaxation. Having worked round the subject, it is about time I took the leap, but, with tips almost as common as were blackberries in most parts last autumn, the task of attempting to find the winner of the Waterloo Cup is more difficult than ever. Two ...

... where we stood to the low hank opposite. It was exactly like the shallow, damp, but waterless ravines at home, filled with blackberry vines. We pushed forward, however, and found our selves looking down on a smooth, swift- flowmg stream. It was not over ...

... a cap from all those who intend following the hounds. Land owners (a long-suffering lot, after all, when mushroomers, blackberry pickers, fern gatherers, and poachers are taken into account), do not complain when they know that these otter-hunters are ...

... he is more than likely to indulge in another. Suspicious quietness on his part may mean that he is gathering nuts and blackberries, and when he is not doing that, he is probably shouting to his companions in the distance, or yelling or whistling at the ...

... information, which is cheap at the price. As for prognostics, alias tips (Gallice, 'tvyaux), they are as plentiful as blackberries. There are not far short of as many newspaper prophets in France as there are in England. Paris-Midi, price one sou, gives ...

... spolia opima in the fashionable quarters of the city, and Burberrys are as plentiful in the Boulevard de la Liberte as blackberries in autumn on a Devonshire hedge. It is very pleasant to be able to congratulate an Inter national golfer on being married ...

... THIS WEEK'S NEWMARKET SALES AND RACES. THE OPENING DAY. Baccara, a black colt by Ay (da Blackberry, a Belgian horse owned by M de Neuter, in the sale ring. This colt was bought in at 1,050 guineas. Trainers in the sale paddock. (Left to right Charles ...

... and Fifinella. That sounds well. NOTES BY RANGER. Schemes of land settlement now and after the war are as thick as blackberries in September, and although one phase of that settlement is supposed to be likely to injure sport, I am quite sure that ...