... basket. Mr Kbsworth, who appeared for the defendants, admitted tha the lads were trespassing, but had only gone in search of blackberries. The Bench, after hearing the evidence in the case of George Lawrence, dismissed it ; and the prosecutor consented, in ...

... be crowned with success, which is neither morally nor physically impossible. For if Morralls are not quite as plentiful blackberries, they may no scarcer than Peabodies, and one _ Morrall equal to a Peabody would be almost the making of the Life-boat ...

... 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 ...

... streets were traversed by more holiday-keepers than the usual votaries of St. Monday, while teaparties were as plentiful as blackberries in a favourable season. One dealer in earthenware had out on hire as many as a thousand enps and saucers. In the Guildhall ...