... in the language of exaggerated metaphor it may be said that the centuries of the summer were almost as plentiful as the blackberries of autumn. It is exaggeration, however, to assert that not only is more cricket played, but that it is plaved better, now ...

... slogging, which now seems to be tho order of tbe day entirely. At races, at Vanxhall, and similar places fights wore asoommon blackberries on hedge, ana often as not they ended with shaking hands and drink, and possibly there was an argument afterwards as to ...