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... 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 ...
... and alleys leading froin St. Mary- treet, in all of which places he will rind. dangerousBt idisances'* as plentiful- as blackberries are in Autumn Nti ?or what he has done, aud for the effective manner inflT vhich he has accomplished his unpleasant task ...
... little girls, the children of a small farmer named Young, residing near Freyslrop, Pembrokeshire, went out to the to gather blackberries, when on® of them, tempted by the appearance of some of the fruit which grew in the mouth of an otd coalpit, ventured to ...
... Eng- land, and that Liverpool and Manchester are each among the places to which a new Bishop will be appointed. BLACKBERRY JELLY.—Blackberries (which are now in season) make a delicious jelly of finer flavour than that of any other fruit. It is made in ...
... 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 ...
... gets his full shure. In autumn. independently of the corn fields, he can gain an honest sub- sistence by frequenting the blackberry, wild raspberry, or dewberryi In winter he revels in the seldom-failing beech htast, diversifying the regimen occasionally ...
... 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 ...
... thousand miles for a peniny, amid buy a iveeck's di areading for twopence. Wec publish books -faster lhan tbrambles bear blackberries, and produce plays as fast as id the French wviite them. W~e can feed paupers on nine- uci penice half'peniny a-day, and ...
... about two o'clock in the afternoon of the above-named day, and took his way, it is supposed, towards the river In search of blackberries. His parents, missing his presence at tea, went round the village in search of him, but failed to see or to hear any account ...
... fire-place, and, while the yule-log blazed bright and cheerily, told Christmas stories, in which ghosts were as plentiful as blackberries. III one tale that was then told, the hpro belonged to a family in which insanity was hereditary (and as is commonly the ...
... gin- palace like a bad shilling? I can't tell, my son. Because you can't pass it, said the boy. Life is a tield of blackberry bushes mean people squat down and pick up the fruit, DO matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud and pe ...
... published in a periodical, and then forgotten with all convenient speed and with regard to essays, which are numerous as blackberries, the best of the small ones may shine for a month in a local publication, while the large ones are seldom published at ...