... us that to his certain knowledge the bed had been there for twenty years; that the fruit was very poor, not bigger than blackberries; ■nd that for a long time the only manure put on it was coal-ashes ! Our first impulse was to dig up so unpromising a ...

... historic cha- racter that we would commend the work to the notice of our readers; for, while novels are as plentiful as blackberries, and often not more pre- cious, histories, written by eye-witnesses of the events they record, and written, too, in a fresh ...