... that if our life had been as short as theirs, they would have totally defeated ua in the competition for nuts and ripe blackberries. I can hardly agree to this extravagant statement ; but I think, in life of twenty years, the efforts of the human mind ...

... subject, and he thought that the reasons for the law were not like Falstaff’s, as plentiful as blackberries, nor were the best of them even worth blackberry. The advocates of prohibition must feel their cause to be weak indeed when they could find nothing ...