... mistresses, namely, washing their faces. The cat-lite of the slums is peculiar. Dogs are rare, but the cats are as common as blackberries in September. Not over clean and not over fat, the cats of the slums yet seem perfectly contented, and rarely leave the ...

... 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 ...

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