... sunny hours employ; And gathering up her last gold sheaf of grain, Laughs o'er her labour with exultant joy. With glossy blackberries and tempting nuts, She hangs the tawney hedge and hazel nooks ; While truant boys—till day's stained window shuts— Bask ...

... he had just cut down! I had 120 yards to go. 'Stop, man Stop!' shouted I. ' Stop!' 1 screamed, as I struggled in the long blackberry wires of a thick hedge. ' Stop, idiot!' I yelled, a. I escaped from the thorns and rushed along the Held. The man who had ...

... of flowers, shrubs, and tree., and nearly five hundred of vegetables, besides agricultural seeds, gourds, &c. American blackberries and other novelties In the way of fruits are also given, as well as the various articles and implements required in ho ...

... The hounds were laid on instantly. After sinking Southlelgh rale, and up through Wiecombe Wood, they crossed the road at Blackberry Castle, thence across the brook to Borcoombe Wood, and on to the top of the hill, where a slight cheek occurred; hit him ...

... beagles. Onward we went, crossing those beautiful Inclosures to Ellington, where the fences and ditches were as plentiful as blackberries In August. Here we thought our friend meant for Duckworth Wood, but he turned to the right for Brampton Wood. where we ...

... through and by the side of nearly all of them. Scores of times have I met known poachers sauntering along them, apparently blackberrying or nutting, or doing nothing particular, who perhaps five minutes previously were fifty yards off the footpath, having ...

... Act would interdict every man and woman, every little boy and girl front strolling in the ticks, or from picking nuts and blackberries or Bowers, or from the thousand and one little pursuits and amusements which make up the sum of delight of an existence ...

... the words above quoted, and with a sermon about little children larking blackberries, flowers, and nuts, &c. 1 must here remark that I never heard of any one picking blackberries or nuts in the month of May, which is the time that eggs are stolen. Mr ...

... replies by what is, I must repeat, arigmarole,- about littl e l a di es an d gentlemen only being allowed i to pick nuts and blackberries—neither of which articles, I repeat, exist, I believe, the egg season. This is the style of argument 1 have to moot from ...

... would prevent any tramper, or labourer, or gipsy, or any other person conjured up by Mr Francis (even his nut-pickers and blackberry-gatherers ! ) from walking about any manor, or any footpath, with any number of eggs, either pheasants or partridges', from ...

... they are more fond of berried. in summer they eat all sorts of worms (yerournie) and insects, bilberries, wltortleberries, blackberries, and raspbernes ; in autumn ou wuuntain Mil anti elder-berries; anti in winter on birch and hazel, catkins, and buds, j ...

... eggs of silkworms are 11 - itched in the %niter *raison (as they may be at guy through the induimet of hest, the leases the blackberry, man,. 01 which re green through the lest whiter, afford good thriving good, prosided the Isiah. are canto.. ,1. also the ...