... THE BLACKBERRY. The blackberry bush—what a cad it is because it happens to be common in the vegetable world ! If it were an exotic, growing here and there, and only growing at all when you mused it, made much of it, manured it, and all the rest, then ...

... in it was, in a certain sense, an intruder. It is only in modern times that lady authoresses have become as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, and have flooded the world with their productions, many of which are undoubtedly very good, but the majority ...