... the Reform Bill of 1832, the meetings of the county representatives of the House of Commons, used to be ¢ plentiful as blackberries,” and especially during the middle of November, the great difficulty of the daily press was to find space for an abridged ...

... own bread, after a fashion. Half-a-dozen rods off was a pond, and he tells us that in his garden grew the ‘‘strawberry, blackberry, and life-ever. lasting, John’s wort and golden rod, shrub oaks, and sand cherry, blueberry, and ground-nut.” Having but ...