... , his mother’s own boy, the hope of the family”—going on an excursion to country fair, where he sells the family horse, Blackberry, to one swindler, and is presently taken in by another, who pawns upon him, for the price of the animal, the four gross ...

... where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride.” The subject has been often treated, and views of Venice are common as blackberries. They are, however, for the most part, mere portraits, if we may so speak of detached parts of the renowned Queen of the ...