... took to ornament the front of his house and the dining- room splendid floweis, many of them exotics, were as plenty as blackberries, and presented a coup d'xil at once pleasing and grateful to the eye. Odd-fellows meddle not with politics, but one of ...

... upon it an immensity of ill. Green gooseberries, crude pippins, unripe plum3, hilts, and wall-fruit hips, haws, sloes, blackberries lollipops, barley- sugar, haid-bake, elecampane, Spanish licorice; cold turnip, raw carrot, jam, treacle, and pastry,—are ...

... happiest auspices. Thus, to use an old saying, it never rains but it pours railways threaten to become as plentiful as blackberries. For our parts, we wish each and all of them success: we cannot have too much of a good thing. The old steam-packets between ...

... of a Poor man's family, have contributed to establish the beer shops and Dowlais, which in these places are plentiful as blackberries. Knowing the many evils arising from the old practice of payment, Sir John Guest has made arrangements for the substitution ...

... another world. The deciding party is not to be dragooned into either of these alternatives. Ifreasons were as plenty as blackberries, this prolific year for such food, he could not give one: and, moreover, h(J probably thinks, that as trigger-pulling is ...

... Jones's prophecy, that the days of the Abergavenny Eisteddlod are numbered—I think not. False prophets are numerous as blackberries. Whether the Bard will be an unit in addition to these, time alone can reveal. I sincerely hope, for the next Eisteddfod ...

... saffron butterfly appears. Hips and haws now ornament the hedges. The berries of the briony and the privet, the barberry, the blackberry, the holly, and the elder, from which is made the famous winter wine of old Eng- land's peasantry, with sloes, bullaces ...

... melons, &c.: but this is just the end of winter here, so that we saw no kind of fruit, except what was unripe, and a few blackberries, just like what we have in England. There are about 15J people on the island, includ- ing several blacks, a governor, parson ...

... whither we went from Stepney at eight years of age Blackberrying. We knew almost every dell, and cover, and tangled copse, and from any path could lead you direct to the richest garden of blackberries. We knew the haunts of Hornsey, and Finchley, and ...

... indifferent about his attentions! Little Dick Morley, the wheelwright's son, was always ready to help us catch the pony, or go blackberrying with us, and what did we want more ? Tom was boasting one day of how many times he had danced with the above- named lady ...

... the lads walk- ing in the Melds, and breaking through the hedges, 0:1 Sunday.—Hockey said he had gone there to look for blackberries Collins said lie went there to look ior a man with moleskin trousers Williams said he had not been there three minutes ...

... crash, worked with honeysuckle, a pink border in feather stitch round the bib being very effective. So is another with blackberries, leaves, fruit, and flower, and C;renat bordering and ribbons. This last would ook well over almost any skirt. ...