... 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 ...

... boas; all your standard works are familiar to us, and o►tained at exceedingly cheap rates; and newspapers are as plenty as blackberries. A town of 4000 or 5000 inhabitants will have its daily paper, while you have only one daily in all Scotland.' In cutting ...