... 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 ...

... him of a loaf of bread and then ran away. A police-constable proved that on the night in question he met the prisoner in Blackberry-lane, and supposing from his disordered appearance that ho was after committing some offence, he took him into custody; ...