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THANK GOD! HE IS NO FRIEND OF MINE

... And left a golden stain. Hedge-rows are fair (Friniginig old lanes-rosndgreen and cotted leas) WVith hip and haw, the blackberry asid sloe. Lovely the moon, with bright flowers everywhere, Swreet the new song of redbreast warbling lone I OCTOBER. Timr ...

POETRY

... you'll only do this- Give us but a fair field for our labour. MOrMes. We no charity ask, &c. Douglas Jerrold's Newspaper. BLACKBERRY. ...

POETRY

... morning mist and evening haze (Unilke this cold grey rime) Seemed woven wvarns of golden air- When I was In my prime. And blackberries-so mawkish now- Were finely flavoured then; And uuts-such reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again. Nor strawberrles ...

LITERATURE

... around them, like well-drilled rows of charity cbildren out for a holiday walk; sud the grapes too, meorb plentiful than blackberries, hawked ia tbe streets and. old by the cwt. at a less' price than soap or sugar; not to mention peaches plucked for the ...

POETRY

... flocking birds to slay, Yet should'st thou in the danger ran, He turns the tube away. The Gipey boy, who seeks in glee, Blackberries for a dainty meal, Laughs loud oa first belholdieg thee, When called, so near his presence steal. He surely thinks thou ...

THE SCHOOLBOY's STORY

... he bad helter run away until he found a forest, where he might change clothes with a woodcutter and stain his face with blackberries; but the ma0jority believed that if he stood his 1. ground, his father-belonging as he did to the West Indies, and Bbeing ...

THORNBURY HORTICULTURAL SHOW

... Underbill contributed a basket ingeniously and beautifully ornamented with mess and berries, and containing crab-apples. nuts, blackberries, dewberries, elderberries, sloes, and other wild fruits; another very pretty basket of wild fruit was exhibited by Elizabeth ...

Literature

... We have the green and ripe Goosborry, red and white Currant, Elderberry, Quince, Cherry, Mulberry, Sloe, Orleans Pluni, Blackberry, Strawberry, Barberry, Raspberry, Primrose, Cowslip, Beetroot, Parsnip, Turnip, and many others. The most extraordinary ...

A TOUR TO GUERNSEY AND THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... sea; but, though iso-I lated, the gardeners are well defended; each man isa soldier, and batteries are as plentiful as blackberries. Au I Bud how loyal are these gardeners; in each drop of their blood is refleeted the image of our good and gracious Queen ...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CITY GATE

... a field, with lovely green grass, dotted with the i brightest and most beautiful flowers, and studded with hawthorn and blackberry bushes, in which the birds gaily carolled from early morning to dewy eve. The only birds now in the neighbourhood are s ...

POETRY

... boy pulls forth a mouse's nest. And then the tempting bramuble-wreatths invite the babes again, Their pretty mouths with blackberries so sweet and ripe to stain; And many as brown nut slips its sheath to share, poor ittle thing, A burstingpocket with a ...

A LOST LIFE

... shadows, fragrant violets grew, and clematis and wild roses clung together in a tangle of sweetness; where the bushes of the blackberry, with it% abundance of tinted blossoms, gave fair promise of a rich crop of its luscious fruits ; beside this lIke, in the ...