... grape, the orange, the pomegranate, the fig, and other equally pleasant and nourishing produc- tions—not the wild haws and blackberries which, even in nature’s prodigal humour, wonld be all that would fall to the lot of any poor fellow who should take a fancy ...

... Orange orators, especially of the stump order, could have been as easily gathered as blackberries—each class, of course, in its season. The orators preceded the blackberry season by some two months, as the former, although never what you would call rips ...

... bread next day. Another, a singularly handsome boy, also a crossing-sweeper, has lately walked up from Bristol, living on blackberries and ‘‘ Swedes” by the way, and getting a little work now and then at carrot-pulling. His mother, the only relative he ever ...

... pauvre pere ! Mistaxrve BELLADoNNA FoR BLackBernies.—Last week some children belonging to the town of Sevenoaks went out blackberry gathering, and one of them, a lad about 10 years of age, was induced to eat some berries which he found growing in Knole ...

... Cardinalis Sancte Ecclesiae Romane?” The priest laconically replied “ scio,” and retired. Here, where cardinals are “ plenty as blackberries,” and the Pope himself can searcely get fulks to kneel to him, the Primate must content himse!f with somewhat less adoration ...

... leftat home and in the colonies, and from the compact with Cardinal Wiseman, wo suppose they will | soon be as plenty as blackberries! But who voted against Lord Palmerston’s proposition in 1854 ? Who then denied the Roman Catholics paltry £550 to pay for ...

... sent out recruiting parties. He was told that there would be no difficulty in enlisting men—they were to be had as plenty blackberries, but they were all fresh “from the pike’’—in other words, they were men who had been out”—they were sheer rebels. His reply ...

... instant tells the following thrilling tale: —* Last fall a woman, residing in the vicinity of Wor- cester, was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having ‘with her her only child, a bright-eyed little fel- low of a year old. The babe sat upon ...

... on,’ notwithstanding the dense fog— the proximity to the shore—the knowledge that fishing boats were almost as thick as blackberries all along the coast—and that icebergs were gai bolling about—pleasant neighbours truly t Well, so the Argo proceeded until ...

... now on her way to Southampton from India. One firm in New York will sell this Summer 80 000 dols. to 100 000 dols. worth blackberries. The trade in small fruits is immense, and deserves to be more fu'ly noted. Livingstone, the African traveller, has been ...

... petticoat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and white ribbons. Her Majesty wore round her a wreath composed of blackberries and dia- imonds, The ceremony of inducting Professor into the Greek chair in the Edinburgh University took place on Tuesday ...

... swimming about in the muddy brook; water-cresses grow upon its surface, and a large vege- table garden, surrounded by a blackberry hedge, fills the valley formed by the divisions of the strea:n. L found Scamander watev-cresses very good. ‘The vil- lage ...