... is an old Celtic tale of a lad who was set impossible tasks. l Among others he had to find ripe blackberries in February. If this weather last, blackberries may be not uncommon * in February at Ventnor. As for the flowers, they blossom with a profusion ...

... officials be always have on such ocasions-excuses, and reasons, and apologies, and necessities, too, as plenty as i *o- blackberries. The landowners-wonderfultobe said cy -would sell their land cheap; they would not take 48 shares, bat it should actually ...

... such a Secretary of State as Webster to deal with, the world had no trouble in finding for his lordship motives ,thick as blackberries for so un- manly, so un-English, and so unstatesinanhke a counsel. In the recently published Opinions of Lord Palmerston ...

... the rapidity with which they are created. Indian Government Five per Cents., in one shape or other, are as plentiful as blackberries. The issue of new railway stock, guaranteed five per cent., was only arrested by the absolute refusal of the public to ...

... of pluck, and he knows his own, mind. The man who expresses himself so (and men of his temperament are as plentiful as blackberries) is the man whom you instinctively fasten upon with this question- WVell, and what 4f Lord Man- dolphP~ If I had beard ...

... c third by the shepherd, or he is sent with the pigs c in search of acorns and finds himself under the x hedge picking blackberries. It is true he may exercise his voice in singing while bird-keeping,' but as 'this involves an effort he only does it when ...

... from his capital. a He has brought his esecutioners with him, and 1 there was a rumour in camp-rumours are as plentiful as blackberries-that he had beheaded 8 one chief in Peshawar, and another siucs his s arrival here. There was no foundation of truth t ...

... of tit, Opposition, as Prince BslancK- of mous knows very well. Motions of want of ceal. dence have been as plenty as blackberries. Mii. BOUSME Moved a vote of censure on X, Address, and Lord SALisIBuY spoke censrs though he did not move it in the Lords ...

... it wereo'in T'urish proies 'lii' did not need,' to mobilise his.aiin, for Tur~kish 'promises were always as pl'enty s 'blackberries, ind 'o'uld'be. had for'the 'aMi'n.' ?? have nothinu but T¶irkisu III ?? o show as the resut o'fi mobilsp, 'wI tion' would ...

... actual distress, and 2 that its abolition or suspense was not the remedy. 2 O Reasons, his lordship said, were thick as blackberries 0 for free trade, so that to put up with the present, and R place hope only in the future, was his lordships o advice. ...

... tion to show that they are exceedingly dishonest. Rarity is a principal element of price. if diamonds were as plenty as blackberries, their market value would be scarcely higher. He who buys a picture, buys it because it is unique. The price is given for ...

... the malt- tax, or some other tax of which the agriculturists complain. RrAsoNs for parliamentary reform are plenty as blackberries. One need not go out of one's way to seek them-; they stare one in the face at every corner; they lift their shrill voices ...