... consideration ; but it may he well to inform you that Irish tales of the right sort are not to be had for the picking, like blackberries ; while Mr. Thomas Sherlock's duties as a journalist leave him no leisure to write long stories nowadays. E. M. F. (Woolwich) ...

... I confess I was a dozen times and more inclined to dash the notion from my head, as obstacles and dampers came up like blackberries in the Devil's Glen, and the course I had mentally mapped out to pursue became o'er-run with doubts and difficulties. But ...

... 'Unfor- i tunately candidates like my friends, Mr. Richard I Lalor and Mr. Arthur O'Connor, are not to be had as thick as blackberries in this country, or in any other (laughter). You herein the Queen's Co ! are particularly fortunate in possessing two most ...