... has been highly favourable for the propagation of both pheasants and part- ridges, whilst leverets are as plentiful as blackberries. They are now being almost hawked from door to door, and are sold at from 2s. to 2s. (id. a piece. Great complaints exist ...

... school, in their leafy retreat, The wild birdssit listening the drops round them beat, And the boy crouches close to the blackberry-wal’. The swallows alone take the storm their wing, And, taunting the tree-sheltered labourers, sing ; Like pebbles, the ...