... England is tbe wild blackberry of our hedges. The fruit costs nothing at all, and it can gathered persons whose labour has no money value. If a working man sends his children into tbe fields and they bring home a basket of blackberries he gets the fruit ...

... Pbilolog'Sts may trace a resemblance between the present provincial word mooching, aud Shakespeare's mitcher, who ate blackberries. Of the three probably the largest amount of business is done by the local inen, on the principal that ihe sitting gamester ...