... JOTTINGS. GATHERING BLACKBERRIES. We heard their voices ere we saw their forms Young, happy voices, jocund the fields, 4 where the road its spine of whiteness warms In the hot August, and the landscape yields Scorched, lerel stretches of unsheltered lund ...

... is still scenting the hedges. 1 have gathered several wild roses, and yet the overhanging bushes are ! full of nuts, and blackberries are getting ripe. The dis tinction of seasons seems utterly merged in this year's erratic climate. Whilst thoroughly enjoying ...

... English are the queerest deevils I ever saw. Tb ...

... together on seven dollars a week. The model husband always changes his boots in the hall; invariably says No, thanks, to the blackberry jam when his wife has company; be does not think fifty ghf'g» exorbitant prioe for a bonnet; walks the floor night with ...

... first of November Removx, on whose tongue continual slanders Tide, has been busy of late Canards have been as conunon as blackberries. Unfortunately they have not been of that innocent kind which is associated with travellers’ tales, but and malicious lies ...

... occasions, when men’s feclings are inel- lowed into sympathy and harmony with all that is compliments are as common as blackberries. It must have been a hard task to bear, though vanity in some persons would make it pleasant. But society, like the child ...

... they were doing it for money, and were dowbtiul about getting pacd. A mud turtle can neither tly, sine, gallop, or co blackberrying, and yet if they are let a! ‘ xe they get along just as well a» the young man tries to be funny at a lawa party. A man ...

... formed no yory strong reason fur Ing the crown with a prayer for Were ignorant and poor they were but types ofa as common as blackberries in the districts to which they belonged, and it would be an event of evil omen if these conditions were ac- cepted asatoning ...

... village the south of Scotland. Again the innocent reader might excused for inferring that religious riots were ascomraoo as blackberries in this country whenlie was told by the Standard that there had been great outbreak at Stransferry, and that Lancashire ...

... those whom fate has left without, And finds provision for his own By other people's out.” when the Two gentlemen, ing a blackberry bush ji them it was unripe, one said it was lidiculous to cai “Don't you know. a said his ties when they were red. ies are ...

... in | Berry, before it is due—Berry. Your father, the elder i ~-Berry, would not have been such a H you needn't leok so black~-Berry, i: ‘or I shan’t pay you till Christmas—Berry. When the first musical festival took place in Edin- ; burgh there was a ...

... tons; damson. 500 tons; blackberry, 100 tons; and they can be bought retailfrom any ready money grocer at the following prices ;— Gooseberry, per Is, raspberry, Sd to 6id ; strawberry, Gd to 6\d; black currants, 54d ; blackberry, 54d; plum, 4d. Mr Gladstone ...