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Preston, Lancashire, England

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... Scotland. Tanning.-A Mr. Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out a pa- tent for tanning from the roots, stems, and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring; and, after preparation, lie states, quite equal to oak-bark. During the lust three weeks the ...

POETRY

... And left a golden stain. Hedge-rows are fair (Fringing old lanes-round groen and cotted lones) With hip and haw, the blackberry and sloe; Lovely the moon, Vwith nright glowers everywhere. Sweet the new song of redbroast waltbling low. oc''rOlEfl. The ...

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... the universal distributian of the slamped letter paper. The O'Connell tribute this year amounted to the sum of £25,000. Blackberry JAlly.-Put the fruit into a Jar, tie paper oer It, and stew In a sauce-pan of boiling! water, or, by putting the jar into ...

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... of mind, capable of discering, and dafing to choose the trtutb.-Belfaptpapar. So mild has beon the weatber lately, ipat blackberries r were sold in Newcaatle,'dtrinf lat woeek attwo-.ppOD per | 'quart. There is no widow so utterly*wiowved Inhoroirueuli ...

VARIETIES

... parties; end there is little doubt but that eventually Pines will become, as the common phrase goes, almost as plentiful as blackberries. The Great Gun newspaper has paid its last shot in the Court of Requests, Guildhall, London, where the proprietor was ...

POETRY

... morning mist and evening haze (Unlike this cold gray rime) Seemed woven warm of golden air- when I was in my prime. And blackberries-so mawkish now- Were finely fiavoubd then; And nuts-such reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again. Nor strawberries ...

LOCAL LITERATURE IN THE LAST CENTURY

... The Farmesr. . The Lark' eshrill niote. e, 6. Platos advice. 7. Old Boreas. ?? When the rosy b morn appearing. 9. Betty Blackberry.l Onsomeofithe ,y title pages there appears, after the impriot, l Preston5. printed by B. Sergent, in the Market plaoe; ...

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

... with black lace. The front has a half wreath of brown heath, and velvet leaves; in the inside the same flowers mixed with blackberries. Blond cap and green satin strings. A felt-coloured velvet bonnet had the curtain of blue velvet and white lace ; a torsade ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... consequently, could never cultivate their hedge-sides properly, and were forced to be content is with soles, and hips, and blackberries, and anything else that came handy and by the grace of nature ; never able re to raise a bushel of grain for harvest-time ...

Literary Selections

... SMALL PHsILosorEsas.-The world is full of small philosophers, ready at a moment's notice to give you reasons as plenty as blackberries for anything whatever. They as a general thing believe that the changes of the moon have an important influence upon the ...

Poetry

... forget The least or thy sweet trifles I The window vines that clamber yet, Whose bloom the bee still rifles I The roadside blackberries growing ripe, And in the woods the Indian-pipe? Happy the man who fills his field, Content with rustic labour I Earth does ...

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... to be a moighty flue dinner here this evening. Tormmy is fond of sugar, and asked his moother for scone to eat with his blackberries. She refused. He ap. pearen resigned, but added gravely, 1You know, mamnma, 'whatbhappened round the corner? There was ...