... ridden for fifty years and more to hounds has a moral right to be prejudiced; in fact, prejudiced men are as common as blackberries in September. The county character would need bush were it not for its dear old prejudice ;—then bravo prejudice! it ...

... recreations” were succeeded in the 19th century, by ale-houses, which (thanks t modern legislation) bang vow as thick as blackberries or hedge, with skittle alleys attached ; so that, instead of healthful games on the villa or holydays, beer and skittles ...