... the agent, his answer was much in the style of his illastrious prototype, Sir John Falstaff— If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason on compulsion,” As the agent has condescended on petty pecuniary items, I mast be excused ...

... accosted a member of the tribe, who seemed to be an intelligent young man. L observed him stopping very frequently to gather blackberries on the wayside, aud then, as if to make up for the delay which had been occasioned by the gratification of his childish ...

... that rather sho fasted thirty-six hours than beg food or lodgin four additional hours on i consecutively, lived haws and blackberries, and sle pt three nights at the back of aditeh, ia the neighbourhood of tho town; e that when she did obtain employment ...