... that the one thing needful to live comfortably and happily was to have a wife, and marriages were soon almost as plenty as blackberries, indeed some of them were contracted with extraordinary facility, and no family was sure of keeping a decent female servant ...

... at the pure altar of heaven, under the root of God's great church—the sky ? After harvest time I went with her to gather blackberries, and sloes, and bullaces, which, in those old high thick hedges, grow as large as damsons, and might be kept in jars, free ...