... meadow, and orchard, with hills and woods in the distance ; and on the Thicket, , look at the ferns, and wild flowers, and blackberries : and smell the sweet-briar. You may go a good way, Captain, and not find a pleasanter place than Maidenhead Thicket.” ...

... being comparatively little visited, the woodland solitude is highly impressive. The Boy having wandered off in quest of blackberries, presently rejoined the Captain reclining on the slope of the hill which leads down into a leafy valley, in the bottom ...

... termination of our programme, some of our friends alighted and walked a mile or so, the lanes about here were very lovely, and blackberries in abundance, quantities being as large mulberries. We were just too late for the nuts, but this ill not be forgotten the ...