... SITTING HENS.—Farmers' wives of the old school say, that hens should never be allowed to sit during the season that the blackberry is in blossom. There is an old saw to the same effect which runs thus Between the sickle and the scythe, What you rear ...

... grossest articles —even on iron. In NewYoik the number of men who acorn to labour in Pennsylvania make stores as plentiful as blackberries. Almost the only coal company of hundreds in the district, which pays their men in cash, is in Car- bondale; they have ...

... them, whether as town councillors, aldermen, magistrates, or mayors. The can- didates certainly are not like Shakspeare's blackberries; the annual or biennial iippcal for some, the constant badgering for others, render the task disagreeable, and so we get ...

... After ting John Davies to make an engagement in the afternoon to go with me to the Duffryn Wood. for the puipose of picking blackberries, at one o'clock I went to borrow a hatchet. 1 carried it to the blacksmith's shop and hid it outside under a bush, where ...

... it is designed must be one where farming is carried on on a large scale, where Justices of the Peace are as plentiful as blackberries, aud where the time and labour both of Justices and of farmers are things of absolutely no value whatever. We do not know ...

... few years ago a pic-nic in Merthyr was a rare thing, and only attended by the fashionable. Now pic-nics are as common as blackberries in No- vember, and not only with secular bodies, but all the chapels and schools celebrate their anniversaries by a pic-nic ...

... Peaches sell at 50 cents a bushel in Baltimore. The crop was never known to be so large as it is this season. There is a blackberry patch in Maine twenty miles square. Ten thousand bushels were picked there last year. The Prussian Government proposes to ...