... a spear wound, from the effects of which he afterwards died whilst playing polo at Cairo. Engagement were plentiful as blackberries during the next fewdays and the 19th took part in them all, and were back at Cairo in time to be sent up the Nile in the ...

... how early the little lads ceased to eat the bread of idleness. The smallest of them would be sent to gather mushrooms and blackberries. They were soon fitted out with a dinner satchel and a pair of clappers, and sent to scare the birds from the newly-sown ...