... place it out of the reach of nine out of ten of our modern poets. Trumpery similes, however, were as plenty and cheap as blackberries. Bavins showed me a packet containing thousand, the price marked on which was only a quarter Mab; and I heard Pippin himself ...

... about (ilbs. in the first instance and to 71bs. in the second to every firkin, weighing lbs. Receipt for Making Blackberry Wine. —Good blackberry wine may be made as follows Gather the fruit when fully ripe, and on a dry day put them in a stone jar, and bruise ...

... of the If inst. tells the following thrilling tale;—“Lastfall a woman residing in the vicinity of Worcester was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, bright eyed fettle fellow of less than a pear old. The babe ...

... reputation and standing. These degrees have become common and valueless. Those that of late years have been, plenty as blackberries, coming over to this country, from the United States, have, it, general, been little estimated by the public ; in fact ...

... appears that on Sunday a party of lads, from the neighbourhood of Richmond Hill, Leeds, went out into the country to gather blackberries. They were attracted a dark purple fruit, and asked a farmer what it was. His reply was that it was the mulberry, and told ...

... consist of Oranges most especially, Apples, Pears, Bananas, Loquats, Guavas, Apricots, Peaches, Figs, Cape Gooseberries, Blackberries, Straw berries, Sweet Limes, Custard Apples, and abundance of Grapes. These are all plentiful, cheap and good. Peter Wallace ...

... line, its time for dacent people to drop, id. There’s no use inatteraptin to account fur tastes. Murty Dwyer was fond ov blackberries. Late in the Peter Magrath seen Murty ope day browsin that kind ov fruit. Arrah, ses Peter, you dirty baste, shure after ...

... snubbed a little, ov coorse ; bad the Irnperor’s in doldruin wid the Italian states. Whin I was gossoon 1 was mighty fond ov blackberries. Well, wan day spied rale tiraptin bunch th’ other side ov a bog dhrain. So 1 slhraddles over the dlirain to cum thim. ...

... and pear trees, laden with fruit, festoons of wild vines bending un ler the weight of their grapes, shrubs of barberry, blackberry, and dog rose; in short, everything seems to be assembled bere homage to the king of the forest, the lofty pine, which rises ...

... all the afternoon, and the little contrary witch knew it.) Then there was rare sport in gathering berries—more especially blackberries. Purchased fruit never had the same delicious flavour of that which was plucked wild, fresh, and sweet from the bushes ...

... were mine, With all that follows in its train, would with gratitude resign, To dream that dream of love again. EMMA’S BLACKBERRYING. Vlat a mellow, golden August day it was ! Just such one as makes us involuntarily step aside from crush ihe worm in our ...

... innovation—a revolution got up to please the rabble and strike “ the existing order of things”—would have been as plenti ful as blackberries. Smart leader writers and jocular caricaturists would have been pulled well together in this matter, shaking hands in the ...