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... anecdote of the Warrenton Rifle Corps. One day he told us that a countryman had come into camp with a quantity of blackberry pies. Blackberries in America are a much finer fruit than those ripened by our faint English sun, and are quite popular in their ...
... peculiar privileges of promotion, the young men who now walk over the heads of grey-headed veterans are as plentiful as blackberries. In military circles, or at least amongst thefl vast majority—i.e., the men who are without the means to climb the ladder ...
... some cider. After a few sheaves had been banded, prisoner sent Eliza Duggins and Hannah Smallwood up the field to pick blackberries, and on their return to the spot where the reaping was going on, the two lads laid down their sickles, and Byng threw Eliza ...
... our paper, and it showed that on the day in question prosecutrix, who is about fourteen years of age, went out to gather blackberries, in company with her younger sister, Hannah, and another girl, named Eliza Duggins. They went by a field belonging to ...
... about twelve years of age.—Ann Jones said that on Thursday last she and some companions were in Winnett's-lane picking blackberries off Mr. Freeman's hedge, when the latter came and smacked his whip at them, striking her on the arms.—The girl here showed ...
... was forty or fifty yards behind his horse and cart getting blackberries.—Defendant pleaded not guilty, and said he was only five or six yards behind the cart, and had merely gathered a blackberry or two.—The Bench said being that distance he had no command ...
... plentiful, but roach and dace, weighing from three-quarters of a pound to a pound and a quarter, have been as plentiful as blackberries in August ! Making due allowance for probable exaggerations—incident to the narration all sporting anecdotes—there can ...
... about twenty yards of the hedge, being burnt. It is thought the fire was caused by some children who had been gathering blackberries near to the hedge. —On Wednesday morning, between two and three o'clock, a valuable rick of hay, belonging to Mr. H. Taylor ...