... during winter. To return to our sheep. These De Capelles, I said, are an odd race, if ever there was one. Ideas are not like blackberries among them, 1 can assure you. You have seen in the papers the burning of Count de Capelle's chateau at Beauregard; an account ...

... and buds of lords and ladies, would in itself be quite triumph of skill; but, taken with all its crisp accessories—the blackberries drooping down, rough mixtures of green fruit aud blossom, the scattered oak leaves aud sprays of ivy, the little tufts ...

... experiments, he stopped, got back again over the battlement, and seemed fairly defeated. culent, arching stems of the blackberries that shot out from the ruin that overhung the pond on one side, and swayed gracefully up and down, high over the lilies ...

... endeavouring assist at an Americau election. The season here is quite far advanced. The trees are green ; the fruit-trees and blackberry-bushes all in bloom ; the birds singing as merrily as if such thing as secession had never been. Stuart’s division are working ...

... iittle alf off, where the stream passed through a charm- d was perfect tangle of low-growing trees, great jj , icheB of blackberry and other creeping and climbing g 0 kbe beautiful wood anemone, and the still fairer anemone—the wood sorrel—were now in ...

... men, with the exception of those on guard, seek the grateful shade of the woods. Some may found mile from camp, picking blackberries, others visiting the few miserable farmhouses in the vicinity in search of good water or fresh milk—for the latter they ...

... yet within stonethrow are hussars, soldiers, constabulary mounted and on foot, crowds of police, magistrates plenty as blackberries, shops shut, crowds running hither and thither, the crack of musket or pistoi reverberating, ladies flying in terror; and ...

... laughter to the babbling of the brook, that, like ourselves, leaps joyously from stone to stone, gather our rich harvest of blackberries. ...

... pre- r ' d fingers, bepurpled lips, and sweethearting Ito 1 derwood disturbed our repose Strange goblins, for stomachs and blackberry-puddings eutice ua through labyriuths of tangled briars, ...

... of rudder mood did’nt, go through with his penitence, and, after “slaying the other ■ re. ’ 'Bring 'he twins out of the blackberry-bushes, and then everybody, ex /p the vicked uncle,’'would have lived happily ever after.” Weil, that’s exactly how the ...

... down, as he did two or three times before that long holiday waa over. Then and Oswald went scampering away, nutting or blackberrying, or to find all sorts of wonders in the woods and fields; they even went fishing in the little stream beyond the Fairhoe ...

... found ’ces to trespassers, as Falstaff's recruits might linen, h every hedge.’ ‘He would have no poachers, no eleaners, no blackberry-pickers, no gipsies, or as the constable, duly instructed thereto, authorij ively announced it, nothing.’ Above all, Mr ...