... to the burgh, however. When demanded an extra force was put on for country service, especially in the berry-time, when blackberries were a tempta- tion and sermons an abomination to the wild boys of the burgh. The country beat of the spiritual tectives ...

... in parti bus infidelium, or even in Christendom might not cut such a figure at home, where the ‘order’ is as common as blackberries on a hedge. The writer in the Friend of intimates that the great men of the Free Church have pa sed away, or ‘ like Dr ...

... closed the Shakspeare tercentenary Al S| so far as London is It seems we are goi tg to have centenarics as plen- tiful as blackberries now. It appears rather odd, » | and perhaps just a Jeetle uncomplimentary, to cele- 0 | brate the tercentenary of Calvin’s ...

... a brickmaker named | Smith was fined the sum of 12s for trespassing in a and taking therefrom, on the 4th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of the value of 6d, or thereabouts. The gamekeeper stated that he had cautioned the defendant more than ...

... brings back to our recollec- tions the ‘days of auld lang syne,’ when among the heather hills of our county we gathered the blackberry, or at the New-Year season its almost Siberian winters. Then the young leapt for joy, for the manhood w Im assem this, he ...

... afternoon, two Irish ly twelve and ten years, went into the coun to gather blackberries. wi as faras Warle igorn, where the prisoner resides, and began gathering blackberries from a hedge which separated his garden from the :meadow the boys were in. berts ...

... fitting form could have been found than that of a public dinner. Testimonials of all conceivable kinds are as com- | mon as blackberries in June ; and, though it is | pleasant no doubt to carry away with you the good wishes of your friends in some tangible ...

... nor the one following, but no attention had been paid to On fact. Oa the third day some children, who were I eliciting blackberries near the village, were attracted the normal movements of dog which !sated them, them, to a spot where be was pawing up ...

... ; the Luxurious, clov er ; the Greedy, cellery ; the Foolish gooseberries ; the Irritable, rasps ; the Roughs, stocks ; blackberries ; the Mournful, onions and rue ; the Speculator, the r ‘areful, honesty ; the Miser. marigold ; the Young ‘Lady, sweet ...

... gonse- berries from Stirkoke and Stemster, as big as small fine red and white currants from Stirkoke ; and fine samples of blackberries from Stirkoke , with a few cherries of enormous size from the former place, nearly com the inventory of the common fruits ...

... * LEVELLING down’ ng to bed. Tue Journal has seen some white blackberries, | I¥ you want to be lionised, go into the wilds of Africa, ApaM (who is dead now) ‘laughed from early morn till late at Eve.” * VERY good, but rather too pointed,’ as the codfish ...

... Master Lucullus Twist. . succeeded in seventeen of rasp four pots of , and two pota of thickness of to the wilduess of the blackberries, part of their sport but they knocked over the brace of bottled cher- when the beaters arrived (in sh»pe' of the nurse- ...