... reason except the drunkenness or slothfulness of their parents—wandering about the streets, and hills, and downs, gathering, blackberries, or simply idling their time, was very sad indeed. It was only the other day he saw two children with dirty pinafores walking ...

... offered at is. a bag, and cider at considerably less than 7s. tid. per hogshead. A child, aged 3, out with his mother blackberrying, ate some of the deadly night shade, and, died from the poison the same night. Professor Ga.mgee arttributes the high price ...

... are the places for religious training. The home ! with a drunken father and &mother at work! The church! seen from some blackberried hill miles away, or scarcely heard of, from some squalid court. The Sunday school! dreamt of only as another school, another ...