... ahead, alert as a young goat to point out something new and strange on the hill-side, or to bring back a handful of purple blackberries, late ripe at these altitudes, to give him pleasure. But you have not been very lonely of late, Joyce, said Silver Sand ...

... tore our pinafores and scratched our bare legs in happy carelessness in the pursuit of blackberries and bilberries, whortleberries and wild raspberries. Blackberrying was the children's holiday. Black berry and bilberry-gathering, however, have now become ...

... with trees at one side and great rocks at the other, in the crevices of which many kinds of ferns were flourishing. As for blackberries they were there in millions, i nd ripe, too but one must be very devoted to this fruit to want to stop and pick them off ...

... and brick residences, churches, schools, and hospitals. European vegetables and fruits of all kinds grow well peaches, blackberries, and raspberries are the common fruits of the wayside, backed by hedgerows of beautiful pink wild roses. The forests, ...

... like to come up to the theatur, when we 've saved a bit of money by all our up- gatherings, for we goes a-gleaning and blackberrying, and we picks sloes from the hedges to make sloe- gin, and we gathers bushels of chestnuts and sells them to the Squire ...

... perienced a difficulty in finding winners. Tips have been flying about as usual assuredly they have been as plentiful as blackberries and almost equally valuable. That is the worst of Newmarket, as a local trainer remarked to me on Monday; one gets to know ...

... with high banks covered with vegetation at either side, the colours beginning to be beautifully vivid and varied. As to blackberries, they are in immense quantities, but by far the greater por tion will never ripen, and those that have succeeded in at ...

... hundred and sixty-one capable officials will be on duty in the seven controls, while road stewards will be as plentiful as blackberries all along the route and will be on duty for ten hours. With such admirable stage managing the performance should go through ...

... Master Willie, and Orchid go to the post, the race will indeed be a treat to witness. Tips for the event are as plentiful as blackberries. The favourites with the talent just now are Grave and Gay and Earl's Seat, while in the neighbourhood of the course they ...

... awaken the slumberers in the fields with the melodies of their bronzen bells the hedges are thick with the ripest of juicy blackberries, large luscious melons are for sale (a penny each) in all the village shops, and cocks and hens make piteous appeal to ...

... to the public. A new joy has been added to the breakfast-table. The logan berry, a cross between the rasp berry and the blackberry, makes the most delicious jam, and is a distinct novelty. The flavour is that of the finest raspberry, but the disagreeable ...

... steeplechasing. The Abominable. In this country and the colonies right honourables and honourables are as plentiful as blackberries. There has been but one individual who could boast of. being known as ''The Abominable, and he was a foreign prince. He ...