... practice. Compared to the sterility of nineteen years ago, good shots are now scattered over the country as plentifully as blackberries in June. The honour, therefore, which Mr Peter Rae succeeded in trapping on Tuesday last, is of sort which is yearly growing ...

... watermelon half cut down, and showing the pink heart within, a pile of rosy bloom-cheeked peaches, and a profusion of garden-blackberries, luscious new luxuries to me. When man can eat no more he can still eat fruit—whence the wisdom of our ancestors relegated ...