... that make at any rate the more tender-hearted class of readers inclined to feel sympathetically pitiful are as common as blackberries ought soon to be ; but a tale which makes us laugh, not at it, but with it, is a veritable treasure. He, or she, who can ...

... give way ribbon and velvet bows. Fruit is largely used, cherries being Ifirst favourites, while red and white currants, blackberries Iwith their rich - toned bramble foliage, grapes and nuts look temptingly realistic. Nuts are particularly pretty with ...

... from the windmills to the sea, and from the Barons of the Cinque Ports to the hut of the poor labourer, with his basket of blackberries. His tomb was erected by the Committee of the Religious Tract Society. Here have come Archdeacon Hare and John Sterling ...

... which onehasneverbeen celebrated can lay little claim to prestige or renown. They have become plentiful as the proverbial blackberry, and, strangest thing of all, nobody seems to grow tired of them. Let the weather be but propitious, and there is alwvays ...

... declines to explain till he hears that ,.II his brother nurserymen have made their fortunes. We are glad he has a good word for blackberry jam; with cream he pronounces it quite an exotic dish -the ne plu hs ultra, we suppose, of praise from a nurseryman. ...

... TWT'O NEW COMEDIES New ideas for the leading matinees of new plays are not, in Falstaff's phrase, quite ' as plenty as blackberries, but fortunately for dramatists they do not appear to be indispensable to dramatic Success. Aryway, play after play comes ...

... of the days when we went gipsying -a long time ago-spare them for the children to gather the flowers of May and the blackberries of September. When the orange spot glows upon the beech, then the nuts are ripe, and the hawthorn bushes are hung with ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...