... and there is a very rapid, deep current below, unobstructed by stones or weeds. Here barbel were once as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. There may not be so many now because the swim has been terribly over-fished, but in the time of which I write ...

... his own bread ,after a fashion. Half-a-dozen rods off wan a pond, and he tells us that in his garden grew the strawbeny, blackberry, and life-everlasting, John's wort and golden rod, shrub oaks, and sand cherry, blueberry, and ground-nut. Having but • ...