... ground till the principal races were over. Divisional generals, brigadiers, colonels, and staffofficers were plenty as blackberries, and, though the only representative of the fair sex was Mrs. Seacolc, who presided over a sorely invested tent full of ...

... the rarity of true friendship, but this must be gloomy libel on human nature, for sincere friends, if not as plentiful as blackberries, are at least as numerous as newspapers. We put it to the experience of all readers of the public journals—cither daily ...

... tops, and an abundance of playtime. At ten, the boy wants to leave school, and have nothing to do but go birdsnesting and blackberry hunting. At fifteen he wants a beard and a watch, and a pair of Wellington boots. At twenty, he wishes to cut a figure and ...

... being generally so busy in finishing the hay harvest. Preserving Summer Fruit. —Such fruits as strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and the like, may be preserved in the following manner cheaply, and their flavour be retained : —Put sugar over the fire ...

... discontinued for want support. Singui.au Discovery of a Supposed Suicide.—On Tuesday afternoon, while some boys were blackberrying in Ancrley Wood, the property of Mr. Rogers, one of them, youth named Osborn, got into a close thicket to pluck some of ...

... New York paper tells the following thrilling tale:— Last fall a woman residing in the vicinity of Worcester was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, a bright-eyed little fellow of less than year old. The babe ...

... remarkable for the accomplishment of physical revolutions and days consecrated by high and holy associations are as plenty blackberries. Auy of these would have made a good notable starting-point for the new-year; and yet they hive all been passed over, ...

... this is a novelty, and a chance for Barnum should announcement meet his eye. Black ladies, we know, are plentiful as blackberries, but the union purple with tbe sable decidedly uncommon. However we think in the present instance it may be accounted for ...

... travel. In two minutes’ walk from the fort, you arc in the fields, and the grounds are covered with ripe strawberries and blackberries. The wild rose bushes are in full bloom. There is an abundance of young oaks, aspen, and other shrubs, on up to the big ...

... market, being very large prepoaderence of sellers over buyers, the latter it all their own way. Gruuters were plea tiful as blackberries, dec. Pork was to be obtained ai i very figure. White wheat , Red ditto 43s to to 40s to I BEVENOAKS White ...

... caprice, are rare. To my knowledge, however, such instances are not unfrequent. Where they are recurrent and as abundant as blackberries in autumn there would end to all tenancy holdings ; but it is fact, that tens of thousands of pounds are thus annually ...

... HOUSEKEEPERS' ITEMS. Fruit Wines.—Wine may be made from the currant, rhubarb, strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, and gooseberry, of excellent quality. Inferior but palatable wines may be made from parsnip and many other roots. While we admit that the ...