... school, in their leafy retreat, The wild birds sit listening the drops round them beat; And the boy crouches close to the blackberry wall. The swallows alone take the storm on their wing, And, taunting the treo-sheltered labourers, sing, Like pebbles the ...

... 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 ...

... family, as if [ bad been born and bred among them. I found that I had come in a critical time. when secrets were plenty as blackberries. It being New week, all the little boarded resources of the children, both money and ingenuity, were in beisk requisition ...