... reasons sufficient why each one should become au abstainer : indeed, the reasons were as Shakespeare said : As plenty as blackberries. He would, therefore, ask them not only to join the moderate section of the society, but to come and help it on the higher ...

... he goes on his way rejoicing, and able to note all the pleasant things around him—the honeysuckle in the hedgerow, the blackberries in the bush, the trout leaping - in the stream, the dragonflies darting among the reeds, the wind sweeping over the corn ...