... interesting instance of his gourmand taste. The 'crop of a greyhen which I opened, he says, contained rasp- berries, blackberries, ants, heather, grass, and oats, and the bird, after having half filled her crop with the grain, had evidently com- pleted ...

... induced our party-managers in latter days to sub- stitute the lady for the male canvasser. Though reasons be as plentiful as blackberries, the average elector will vote for no one on compulsion. The more a fellow-man attempts to teach him the more resentful ...

... carpeted with bracken, with here and there a bright-coloured gorse-bush or-prickly bramble, laden in autumn with luscious blackberries. In the spring the ground is bright with acres of bluebells, primroses, and violets. In summer the woods are alive with ...