... t , o'ce I, brown talon, the hardest agent in the coantry, aad held oat his ugly ban I fur the money as though it grew a blackberry bash. Small blame to Mike for 43.ttiag the (lug on him one rooarther day. lint some way or amt her No:a managed to ply her ...

... IN SCHOOL DAYS. Still site the schoolhouse by the road—a ragged be •gar Bunning : Around it still the sutnachs grow, and blackberry cities are running. Within, the master's desk is *vet), deep scarred by rapt , o fficial ; The warping floor, the batv_i'd ...

... abnormal births, or through what is called throwing-back. But the law of nature is, like from like, and so we never look for blackberries on hazel bushes, or nuts from brambles. The woman who iv herself wise and virtuous will refuse to link her life with any ...

... occasion. It is a very one•sided arrangement that this country should subsidise all the German princelings, plentiful as blackberries, who are selected to mate with scions of British royalty, and when a British prince goes to Germany he should still require ...

... POR SALE, a quantity of Blackberries and Gooteberries. Apply, Afro BRUM Baron Street, Buckle. IICYCLE (Raglan, Solid Trees) for Sale. Apply, AdvwtiM► Offi3n. QOl l . and 18et. Wid Sold by the Weight. Street, Buckle. Keepers it Church FIREWOOD (Light Slabs) ...

... G TEE BRAMBLE—INTERESTING ExeirLIMINT.—Mr Alexander Harvey, atoaehense=lir, writes as follows on the cultivation of the blackberry or bramble :—I visit frequently those who are cultivating the bramble, especially James Caldwell, who has for many years ...

... the lang simmer days, when a'thing was bright, I hae roamed wi' my comrades Erse moral& till night Gathenn' strawberries, blackberries, an' brummels in turn, There was naething but grew in the Airmachy Burn. The young folks a' reon wad gather in scores To ...

... heard o' ane o' oor wives wha pat on the pan to mak' aipple jelly, an' fin she took it aff the contents turned oot to be blackberry jam. Meggie—Noo, noo, Sandy, ye're jist gaun yer length again. Henry—That uman's surely been in as thick a fog as some o' ...

... is commented upon in the most scathing language by London stipendiaries, deserters in London buiug almost as common as•blackberries. Now, in the nature of things it is not to be expected that the War Office will begin the task of army reform by purging ...

... and was averted time atter time by Davidson in goal, who was playing in his beet style. Corners to Keith were as thick as blackberries, and one corner kick even landed in the net without any, one being able to touch it. The winning point came at last after ...

... gweed ban' at preservin' freak. Francis—Fat o' black-lookin' stuff's that ye're layin' sae thick on yer piece, Willie ? blackberries or blaeberriea, or fat ? Willie—lt's nano o' them, Francis, bit it's the gweed aul'-fashioned bruw'le that's sae fashionable ...

... any hint of their desperate need reach their neighbours. Of late the father has been picking up a few pence by gathering blackberries, and thus he and his family have subsisted. To add pathos to the case, Mrs Farrow was shortly expecting an addition to ...