... that he was destined in after life, to salve. When his schoolfellows roamed in the meadows, gathering, wild flowers or blackberries; he 'would ,be sitting on the wooden benches 'of the schoolroom mending a kite, — nr cutting out some . toy. What a dull ...

... fair one, in point of numbers and quality, though there is a talk of another Cockney Boy, trained, like a gipsy's dog, on blackberries and Swede turnips, being among the competitors. The following may be taken as a pretty accurate guess at THE DERBY RUNNERS ...

... lanes; where birds twittered in the hedges, surprised to hear a footfall; and where the grass and nettles and docks and blackberry briars stretched ,far across the way. All the labourers whom they passed lifted their hats; and when they darkened the doorway ...

... family, said he. But, upon my word, this is about the biggest blackberry I ever came perilously near swallowing ! And he held out his wife's pearl brooch, boiled up . in the blackberries! There was a momentary silence around the table; and then it was ...