... Halbert's countrymen at least know the value of name, and George Washingtons are therefore as plentiful in the land as blackberries. There is much in a name, and this convertibility of Halbert to Albert, by the simple process of dropping the h, and ...

... excambion from Lord Strathmore. LETHAM. Early Fruiting.—On a wall possessed by Mr Andrew Matthew, baker, there is to be seen a blackberry bush, on which there is very abundant crop of large ripe berries, the earliest we ever heard of in this somewhat neglected ...