... escape when driven into a corner for a reason, the refusal to give a reason on compulsion if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, is one of the cleverest touches in FalstafFs career. The coward's argument in favour of safety against honour is no less ...

... ground. The communion-table was covered with apples, pears, and bread. Inside the rails were pots of flowers, vases of blackberries, grapes and eggs, with mushrooms and pumpkins. In the extreme corner were sheaves of corn with sickles, bags of corn, and ...

... mountains we drove one day through twenty miles of raspberry canes with delicious fruit thereon in count- less millions ; also blackberries much larger than ours, and wild mulberries and other fruit, but everything wasted. In England with the smallest hint from ...

... grapes and fiowers. The windows were adorned with sheaves of oats, barley, anil wheat, bread, butter, Jam, eggs, plums, blackberries, tomatoes, apples, grapes, moss, etc., etc. Ivy was hung on the chandeliers and the baptistery screen. The font ?? decked ...

... and few birds now remain or could long survive in a truly wild condition. A few days before the lst of October, when the blackberries hang on the brambles and tho brown nuts drop from the clusters, the keeper goes, as is his daily wont, to the coppice of ...

... Circe the chance of shedding a few becoming tears, and turning the conver- sation into a sentimental channel. What with blackberrying, moonlight fishing, and other sylvan sports in Circe's company, you are soon involved in a very pretty romance. You tear ...

... presented a very charming effect and consisted oats, vegetables, corn, bread, butter, apples, pears, tomatoes, onions and blackberries. Last night an organ recital was given by Mr. Herbert Arscott in the same chapel, when although the attend- ance was not ...

... of the gallant sportsmen, und of other incidents connected with the Kppine Hunt, as may be supposed, are plentiful as blackberries among the older inhabi- tants of these parts. Among anecdotes of another kind, the following is perhara worth recording ...

... and from their respective parade grounds. Cocked hat° and feathers were a glut in the market, helmets were plentiful as blackberries in autumn, and— as to rifles, the island fairly bristled with them, like quills upon the fretful porcupine. Peaceful ...

... the one main dissipation of the Scilly Islands. You may spy at ships in the offing, pick up shell on the beach, gather blackberries in the moors, play kiss-in-the- ring on Sunday school anniversaries, but none of them hits the happy mean between absolute ...

... great favour again, as is ivy — the flowering ivy — oak apples, with shaded oak leaves in all tints of green and brown, and blackberries with bramble leaves. Of hats, the most novel French shapes are the Roland, with a round turned- up brim ; the Auvent, ...

... cray-fish, and crabs, in a very artistic manner. Eggs, butter, bread, curds, peas, cucumbers, vegetable marrow, figs, blackberries, potatoes and other roots, sunflowers, etc., etc., were largely drawn upon for tho decoration of minor places. The font ...