... of Commons '. 4 4 • • • • Able politicians and administrators, both military and civil, may be as plentiful in India as blackberries are in England; but if we look amongst the ranks of her Majesty's Indian services for an economist, a financier, a jurist ...

... pluckier exploit than this of Lutchman Singh' s ; no not in those fighting times when plucky deeds were as plentiful as blackberries on a Devonshire hedge. When in December I was allowed to return to E'tawah he mem- pealed me, aad wax with me thoughout ...

... of meetings in the Calcutta Town Hall with such delightful disregard of the actuality, are by no means as plentiful as blackberries; and the only other likely candidate is Lord Ampthill, of whom we had certainly thought better things. Still, when one ...