... changes and made the Italians wiser. British Protestant Missionaries explained to them that they had only got a piece of blackberry stem in their ultramarine box. German Philosophical Missionaries explained to them that the Crown of thorns itself was only ...

... racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! If reasons were as plenty as blackberries 1 would give no man a reason oa compulsion. No one, says Elector, Can achieve the impossible, and it is impossible ...

... swallow every imaginable pledge, and swear that if elected every possible evil in Ireland will be cured, are as plentiful as blackberries and as worthless as straws. If tho County of Wexford has discovered that she has had enough of them and that she can ho ...

... or runaway couples. It is only lately that animated crops began to hold up their beads, but now they are as plenty as blackberries. Anybody who molests or obstructs an away-going crop is a dangerous lunatic, who will be pulled up under the eighth section ...

... The Earl of Courtown v. Anne Callaghan. Edward Eustace, witness, swore that on the 9th inst be found defendant picking blackberries in a large can, and that the fence was all torn down. His Lords hip (who left the chair) said that it was repeatedly complained ...

... They told a couple of gentlemen that Mr. Timothy O'Farrell had turned them out, and that they were living ou turnips and blackberries. The ratepayers in whose district they lads were rambling were much annoyed about it. Mr. Sinnott—They must be punished ...

... master told respectable ratepayers in the country that be (Mr. O'Farrell) put them out, and that they lived on turnips and blackberries, and the gentlemen to whom they told the story were much annoyed. Now it pained him very much that the ratepayers should ...

... they wanted these genteel kind of members they could have them by the score—they were not scarce. they were as plenty as blackberries—but they wanted a man to go into the house to make cause with the Irish party, not to cheer the Minister, but to face him ...

... large coal proprietor, has lately made an excursion through the South of Ireland, and was struck with the superabundance of blackberries, which he told his friends, when he went back, were not utilised by the Irish, but allowed to ripen, grow, and then ' ...

... give for a turnip, And a fortnight at least for two sticks, And three years as a rule At a Criminal School, To whoever a blackberry picks ! I'm the curse of my country, the terror of all, Especially those who are feeble and small ; I'm a grabber of land ...

... Sam Maielb was a chronic offender. He was known to be a hard citizen even in Dallas, where hard citizens are thicker than blackberries. Whenever there was a mysterious burglary or highway robbery, and the police, as usual, could find no clue, they arrested ...

... There are at present a score murderers awaiting trial ; cases of manslaughter, robbery, and the like are as plentiful as blackberries, while outrages of even a more horrible nature form the chief items in the daily papers. The Divorce Courts are filled ...