... lightning—threw myself on my side, for there was keeping my feet, and down the brae hurled I, over heather and fern, and blackberries, like a barrel down Chalmers’s Close, in Auld Reekie. G—, sir, I never could help laughing when I think how the scoundrel ...

... every honse. Fools grow without watering,” the proverb says. It is commonly assumed, indeed, that fools are as plentiful as blackberries; but be mnst be a fool who thinks so; for the term fool has become the synonym for an honest man. The fact is that fools ...

... besides, his police and spiee are not every one of them on the other side of the channel*he has them here too, plenty as blackberries. They failed not to inform him what reception the British people were likely to give him. Then what does he meditate ? ...