It runs about every bungalow's verandah and the compound trees, and its note is like a creaking wheel-barrow going along slowly, then it gets faster till it is like the blackbird's scream when frightened out of the Gooseberries.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Dickens was so careful to make his names and terms express volumes of meaning that he probably meant the phrase "mathematical Gooseberries" to be especially significant.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
You can't raise chickens from egg-plants, or produce goslins from Gooseberries.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith