... been rather more than winked at. I saw a gang last year at Portland going to their work by the sea talking and picking blackberries as they went, and I was glad to observe it. I have always advocated more opportunities of salutary speech for prisoners ...

... happened to be engaged, however menial it might be. Ile denied that he punished the two lads in the field, when they had been blackberrying, so as to draw blocd. The only time in which he used the birch was in the case of the boy Davis, on May 2. Ile never used ...