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FACETIAE

... ridiculous to call them black- Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit berries when they were red. * Don't you know,’ said his green — The World of Wit and Humour. friend, ‘that blackberries are always red when they are A witty clergyman, accosted ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1871
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1249 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Bee-Five

... who flounced my new frock, but ‘Cud’ (ber cousin) made the button-holes.’— Knickerbocker. Dry CLovups.—Two boys among the blackberry bushes, some mile or two out of town, saw a cloud } One, who was rising, and heard a sound like thunder. a littie timid ...

Published: Friday 23 March 1855
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCHOOL-BOY TRICKS AND MORALITY

... that I was sent to fetch the bulletin which would have kept ine Irons a nice party, that was go out for the gathering of blackberries, complained, tears in eyes, ny brother J)jnicl, .bout this of an auld wi.e that would neither die nor get better, Tut ...

Published: Friday 10 August 1849
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PUSEYISM AND THE PERTH COLLEGE

... matters are rapidly tending, and they will erect churches and hatch curates until both become as plentiful as FaUtaff s blackberries. If something be not done, and that speedily, to arrest the progress of this moral plague, the contagion will continue ...

Published: Friday 15 October 1841
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 768 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT

... such like things, are nearly all bad speculations ; and as for lodgings, which were to be so scarce, they are plentiful blackberries in autumn, and cheap enough as yet. The next two months may make a little amends for this, but still it will not repay ...

Published: Friday 06 June 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 755 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S RESIGNATION

... on almost all points is early and correct, writes on Sa- turday :—** Cabinet secrets are now almost as plenti- ful as blackberries. One of these secrets is, that his lordship repestedly resigned, and that his resignation was as often refused by command ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1855
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 845 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

At Bexley Terrace, P

... Master Lucullus Twist. . succeeded in seventeen of rasp four pots of , and two pota of thickness of to the wilduess of the blackberries, part of their sport but they knocked over the brace of bottled cher- when the beaters arrived (in sh»pe' of the nurse- ...

Published: Thursday 19 November 1868
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Facetiæ

... letters w-r-o-n-g, are invariably pronounced WRONG. — To think of curing a disposition for tel- ling white lies by eating blackberries. A western poet has composed ‘The Song of the Dy- ing Horse It is very affecting. A at people say, ‘ Necessity has no law ...

Published: Friday 07 April 1854
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 838 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TWO HEARTILY WELCOMED VEHICLES,

... The appearance of snob a sea of faces is strange. It seemed if the elopes of the hills had been ■trewn with countless blackberries, and the eight of thousands of umbrellas running np, when the tain became heavier, is not often given in lifetime, The ...

Published: Friday 29 June 1894
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 910 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CASTLETOWN

... require some time to accomplish, and the new parliament may but short lived. In three days, when candidates are numerous as blackberries, member must show soma work done, or st least some effort made, before can count being returned again. The defeated rendidstee ...

Published: Friday 19 October 1900
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 854 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ROUGH EVERY-DAY MAXIMS

... should parade the street with you arm in arm, else you will lean upon a broken reed—these promises are as plentiful as blackberries, but their fulfilment is indefinitely postponed. Never intrude upon a friend who gives you a general invitation to take ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1841
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 926 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FACETIÆ

... * LEVELLING down’ ng to bed. Tue Journal has seen some white blackberries, | I¥ you want to be lionised, go into the wilds of Africa, ApaM (who is dead now) ‘laughed from early morn till late at Eve.” * VERY good, but rather too pointed,’ as the codfish ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1868
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 4 | Tags: none