... covers, and acorns be in them, but few birds will migrate. Pheasants are very general feeders, and vary their diet with blackberries, sloes, haws, and other wild fruits. They are known to seek the roots of the common buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus, and ...

... young Fitzstoat following with a loaded gun—for they were minded to shoot rabits—when the lock and trigger were caught a blackberry-bush, and the contents were suddenly lodged in the body of the luckless Mountferret. By this unfortunate and tragical occurrence ...