... perhaps quite the best of its kind, someone remarked that hunters and hounds, M.F.H.'s and huntsmen, were as thick as blackberries in September. Then, again, the New Forest is a favourite trysting-placo for those who like to hear hound music whenever ...

... hopeless to give a list of the company present, suffice it to say that Masters of Hounds were as thick on the ground as blackberries, and in addition to them nearly every gentleman in the slightest degree connected with agriculture in Yorkshire or elsewhere ...