... pleasantly undulating country, its narrow roads in winter, knee-deep in mud, with their thick tall fences, in which the blackberries are now ripening; its green lanes which tempt the traveller from the high-road; its pleasant footpaths through cornfields ...

... beloved country. “He had to contend again- 1 a great deal in his district, for the infamous Copperheads wer*» as thick as blackberries, and he often felt if he would like thrashing a man to Christian I'irtue. that he might hare the privilege of digging into ...