... sustained themselves with blackberries as long they had strength to gather them, and that they must ultimately have perished from hunger and cold. inquest will be held on their bodies this day. Their pretty lips with blackberries Were all besmeared and ...

... 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. Seacole, who presided over a sorely invested tent full of ...

... aware that few will read his observations, and fewer still be influenced by them. Subjects he may find, as plentiful as blackberries, upon which to exercise hi» patience and ingenuity ;but if those subjects themselves lack interest, his labour goes for ...

... talked of adopting him. But, whether wild Indian of the prairie, Jack pined for the Strained freedom of his native woods-the blackberries and the roasted sloes; or, what is more. likely, feared chastisement for his many after a brief trial, he ran away, and ...

... Uncut, brought from the hast;, and Deepen'd and glowing the flush of shame. passionate indignation. Hips, and haws. And blackberries, scatters on the bushes,. As an alms—or banquet—-for the birds ; then bids Ail creatures welcome to bis feast; until The ...

... boy was great favourite. Dumfries Courier. Discovery of a Supposed Suicide.—On Tuesday afternoon, while some boys were blackberrying in Annerley-wood, the property of Mr. Rogers, one of them, a youth named Osborn, got into a close thicket to pluck some ...

... of G to A flat—more especially with the position he has placed the chords in, where fifths and octaves are as plentiful blackberries ? We have no patience with such very ugly harmony, while the needlessly-prolonged phrase at the conclusion throws us almost ...

... dew; The morning mist and evening Unlike the cold, grey rime, Seem'd woven waves of golden air When I was in my prime. And blackberries, so mawkish now, Were finely flavour'd then, And hazel nuts with clusters thick I ne'er shall pluck again. Nor strawb'ries ...

... Sessions, held on Friday last, a little boy named Trebem was mulcted in the sum of 75., including expenses, for picking four blackberries from the hedge of a neighbouring gardener; and two other youths had to pay 10s. each for gathering huts on the lands in ...

... prisoner did not bury the silver pencil cases, but merely put them behind a tree, and no doubt the people who were picking blackberries found them. The prisoner stated that he had picked ferns and made a bed; and slept in Epping Forest for the last week. ...

... point, unquestionably, had good de» to do with the fact that liberal candidates for Mayoralty were not quite so plenty as blackberri* * Many who would have liked it to be said that th had lived to have the honour of being Mayor of tbe' native city, shrank ...

... however, prevents our indulging in any vciy sanguine expectations respecting the ensuing Session. Measures were plentilul aa blackberries thb year, but h >w few comparatively survived! The great fault the Government was, the readiness amounting almost to eagerness ...