... inquire as to the otherJmpediment. “My wife,” was the rascal’s reply. Coal.—ln Lancashire, coal trucks are as thick as blackberries. Coal—coal—coal meets the eye wherever the eye peeps—blazing away at the pit’s mouth, half-a-ton at a time, say a ton while ...

... Marriage. —ln years, before the gold-fields were overrun by the rush of emigrants, and when gold-holes were plentiful as blackberries, a party of two or three men haying worked out good claim, which had yielded, say 500/. a man, would forward their gold ...

... John would certainly think themselves hardly used if, in this era of liberty, when locomotion is cheap and girls plenty blackberries, they ;hould not be allowed to pick their spouses, at least, among a hundred fair ones, so us to able thoroughly investigate ...

... ly could never cultivate their hedge-sides properly, but were forced to be content with sloes and hips and pignuts and blackberries, and anything else that came handy and by the grace of nature; never able raise a bushel of grain for harvest time, or ...

... beloved country. “He had to contend again- 1 a great deal in his district, for the infamous Copperheads wer*» as thick as blackberries, and he often felt if he would like thrashing a man to Christian I'irtue. that he might hare the privilege of digging into ...

... pleasantly undulating country, its narrow roads in winter, knee-deep in mud, with their thick tall fences, in which the blackberries are now ripening; its green lanes which tempt the traveller from the high-road; its pleasant footpaths through cornfields ...

... thing, under ordinary circumstances, in Austria, titular honour and dignities being plentiful in the market, and cheap blackberries—but that his case be met unexpected difficulties, arising in high quarters, it being expectqd, probably, that he would ...

... Manhattan,” in his last letter). At his reception, one evening last week, in the White House, the negroes were as thick as blackberries in Jersey. Among them was coloured barber named Burke; was an applicant for an office in the Newg York Custom House. The ...

... bridegrooms and their brides. A large {scotch pearl was found the other day Inverury. It was about the size of a large blackberry, weighed twenty-three grains, and was round and perfectly pure. It was sold for 3lf. Scotland is the only land that can ...

... found guilty, and sentenced to penal servitude for fifteen years. It is expected that there will be the largest crop of blackberries, nuts, and elderberries this season in the South England that has been known for several years past. One of the many rumours ...

... the race week, when Princes and titled people from almost every European country (France especially) were as plentiful as blackberries a young Brazilian won close on 30,000/., and on Saturday evening the process known as “breaking the bank came to pass. ...

... After getting John Davies to make an engagement to go with me in the afternoon to Duffryn Wood for the purpo?e of picking blackberries, at one. o’clock, I went to borrow the hatchet, I carried it to the blacksmith’s shop and hid it outside under hush where ...