... mother-sheep, the feeding of the cattle, and the clover meadows. We are taken into the lane and examine the hedges, the blackberries, and the cottage, and we hear the song of the thrush ; into the woods in tender spring, in green summer, and golden autumn ...

... monstrosity called the Toad Rock on our right; the approach to the latter is guarded by a detachment of small boys deserting the blackberry bushes in the anticipation of halfpence, which boon having been accorded or refused, they disappear among the brambles, ...

... ng. I am so worried !- The children? Oh yes, the children are all right. I've sent them to hunt up blackberries for a blackberry pudding. Blackberries are over, of course-but they don't know that, and it keeps them out of the way. -And Mr. Pennefeather ...

... spelling of Phidias to be found in the lexicon. The engrav- ings in the book are exquisite, particularly those of the blackberry, the Ulvainza, and the fever-few, which last would be charming in a frieze. Anthologia Anglica, by Howard Williams, ...

... stooping under a bundle of cut furze; or a horde of shy little flaxen-polled savages beating the bushes in quest of a few late blackberries ; but sometimes they went for two or three miles without encountering a soul. More than once, a covey of partridges rose ...

... sing. That was another occupation. Then I used to ride with the boys, or sometimes we would go fishing, or nutting, or blackberrying-oh ! there was plenty to do, and the days were never too long. ' A better education than most ladies can show, he replied ...

... successful explorer, or a Master of Foxhounds-or anything, in fact, a little less cotmot than a baronet, who grows like a blackberry on every hedge. In such wise scolds and stoyms the setpposc(lly refined Mary Raynhans before throwing her engagement lritg ...

... whetn one s own country finds one a good berth. But the fact is that the purserships of the Australian liners don't grow on blackberry-bushes ; and, in the useasitinse, Miss Barbara, I've just to put up with what I've got as best I can's And so, with varied ...

... they followed was so solitary that the hazel nuts had remained on the boughs till they slipped from their shells, and the blackberries hung in heavy clusters. Every now and then Angel would fling the lash of his whip round one of these, pluck it off, and ...

... germinate in the poorest ground, then as successive growths of this weed decay and vegetable mould accumiulates, r spberry ind blackberry vines spring up from seeds brouglht by bilrds. Theru come the birches and mountain cherry trees, sheltered at first by the ...

... they are all on the wrong side, like Lady Crewe herself. Have you no cousins amongthe Whigs? Cousins I had, plenty as blackberries, but all were honest Tories. Stay, there was one; but I had never seen her. She was Mary Clavering, who made a great match ...