... treatment we received either from a financial or artistic point of view, princes, counts, and barons being as plentiful as blackberries in October, while the general public was extremely enthusiastic when they became more conver- sant with the jocularities ...

... 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 ...