... agricultural districts of Lancashire. Long chimnies have helped to make the land barren, and to turn the men sour. There are no blackberries on the fences now, no wild roses blooming in the hedges. Farming has to run a race with manufacturing, and the former has ...

... the boys went away into the forest and brought home firewood: and during summer and autumn they gathered whimberries, blackberries, and cranberries, which they sold in the town, and did odd jobs for the farmers, and so helped their father to provide ...

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