... hed stack testifies to his honest labour Alas our resolutions and plans how often they prove like the green un-ripened blackberries hanging so disconsolately by our path this wet autumn Happy if least some fruit has ripened into beauty and mellowness ...

... anybody in the parish passed through the field on his way te and from the Union-house. Rarely did he meet anyone but boys and blackberry pickers, and never without warning them that it was not a publio pathway. After the death of the old tenant the farm waa ...