... galls. With these the coppice furnishes them abundantly. The same frosts that ripen the corn and put the bloom upon the blackberries rapidly develop the body and plumage of the pheasant. And so by the end of September it requires a keen eye to distinguish ...

... looked upon differently from that earned by steadygoing labour on the field or farm. In their season he gathered cress, and blackberries, and nuts. Snipe and woodcock which came to the marshy meadows in severe weather were taken in gins and springes.” Traps ...

... ication, and few birds now remain or could long survive in a truly wi.d conditiotn before tbe St 0 f October, when the blackberries hang on the brambles and the brown nuts drop from the clusters, the keeper goes, as is his daily wont, to the coppice of ...