... heard that story very, very often, Laura —forgive my calling you so, but you used to permit it in the days when we went blackberrying some ten years ago ; and forgive me again, but upon my word, I cannot help asking you, impelled as I am by some mysterious ...

... valleys, commencing generally near the streams—as many a fisherman knows ; the berries of the hedgerows are brightening ; blackberries and mushrooms are being gathered by children and idlers ; orchards are bending beneath their load of fruit. All these are ...