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... own bread, after a fashion. Half-a-dozen rods off was a pond, and he tells us that in his garden grew the ‘‘strawberry, blackberry, and life-ever. lasting, John’s wort and golden rod, shrub oaks, and sand cherry, blueberry, and ground-nut.” Having but ...

... The method of construction was simple enough. In the charters of the 12th and 13th centuries, Scots were as plentiful as blackberries, and the genealogist, searching only for a name and appropriate date, would only be puzzled whether to choose Gilbert, ...