... long way off, remind us of the blackberries, and tell us that small hands are already busy among the bushes. It is out of the question that we should do more than contemplate the fruit before us. Even a common blackberry bush is a picture at this time ...

... faithful, venerable, red-eyed spaniel, cannot stand our loitering any longer; he sees no beauty in the hedgerows heavy with blackberries, beautiful with clematis, and scarlet and yellow foliage, with hip and haw, and the bedeguar of the rose; he has no curiosity ...