... carts; but rarely so traversed, and, for the most part, little else than a narrow strip of untilled field, separated by blackberry hedges from the better cared-for meadows on each side of it: growing more weeds, therefore, than they, and perhaps in spring ...

... nothing which God has made. From the time when the daisies and buttercups appear in the field, until the time when the blackberries are ripe, and the corn may be gleaned, the country is full of pleasant things, of which the little ones never grow weary ...

... evidently of feminine mtnufarture, under difficulties, looked as if it had been thrown at butterflies, or used to bear down blackberries for a longer period than had marked his 'day amid his new and delightful surroundings. The woman in whose charge lie was ...

... least plant in God's garden did not envy the big plant. He could not grow pineapples, nor grapes, and if he could grow blackberries that was all they could expect from a thorn-bush. He was content to be a little bush in the back of the desert, but it ...