... by the young people of the adjacent village and vicinity in pleasure parties to the woods, and numerous excursions to the blackberry thicket which gave the name of Briarfleld to Uncle Bedford's neighbourhood. Flossie Denton was ever the leading spirit, ...

... night. Mr. H. Beasley's Come Away and Kremhilda traversed two miles at a steady pace. Aintree, The Dream, Mount Arm- stronz, Blackberry, Flying Column, Freshet. and others were cantering. Mr. Gordon's Cruiser, . Malta, and Favette went two miles and a baif ...