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... mixing scorn with speech, and contempt with the light of the eye These superior lords of creation are as plen- tiful as blackberries every town swarms with them, and they go on with their imperious airs until chance proves one of the sort to be nothing ...

... garden wall. When asked his business there, he replied that he was merely gathering a few blackberries, which, said witness, I would be very sorry to see a blackberry bush growing in any garden of which I had the charge. On searching the prisoner he found ...