... sedgy sunk pool with swans; or children playing catch beside the pond, or watching the waggons go home, or scrambling after blackberries beneath the twisted pines upon the hill-side; or young girls walking home in company after the singing, or dancing to the ...

... birds have gone on breeding until it is literally tout perdreau, partridges being as plentiful in the Champagne plains as blackberries on an English common. As during our day's drive we did not encounter a single gendarme or garde champ~tre, it is the Champenois ...

... point. That is, there were eight 20's and forty-three ig's in the list of fifty-seven winners. The IS's were plentiful as blackberries, and only sixteen of the best came in for a prize. Last year thirty-one similar scores were in. The shooting at 500 yards ...