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And feast on hips and blackberries wid, As truant gay; Or eager plunge in cool pe lucid stream, Heedless, that

... And feast on hips and blackberries wid, As truant gay; Or eager plunge in cool pe lucid stream, Heedless, that Summer’s sultry day is fled ; . Ox muse, as breathes the flute, the rural theme, Such theme as fancy’s song may yet bestead ; Ir stretch’d at ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1805
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

UNITED STATES—TRIAL FOR MURDER

... (Andrew and Lucinda) toid her they would show her a good blackberry patch that evening, and Lucinda told she must bring Mary and .Margaret Mayse with her, and she would show them the blackberries. Whilst on her way to meet the children returning from school ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1838
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 586 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS

... MISCELLANEOUS. Receiptfor Refreshing Raspberry and other Jaw, long +made.— Boil blackberry juice till greatly reduced; add white sugar in the proportion of 1 lb. to a pint of juke; mix the old jam with thig syrup, and boil until sufficiently done. By ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 1844
Newspaper: Glasgow Courier
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 56 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

_DilNFEiuniNE . —Tllis town and _neighbourhood was _visited _with n _tremendous fall of rain on _Tuesday lust , ..

... _season ; and , in _consequence of the home _made-wiiic-mania _being over , _the currants arc _literally UB plenty _ni _blackberries . _Extraordinary Take _if _Herring—On tlio _cvenii _);? _- of Friday _last , Mr John _Gibion _, a , hardy _and _skilful ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1828
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IREZiAra

... foreign parts. Tammimo.—A Mr Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out patent for tanning from the roots, stems, and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring; and, after preparation, he states, quite equal to oak hark. ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1837
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 180 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE HIGHLAND CLANS

... —pine; Mileitosh— boxwood; Mackay bullrush ; M'Kenzie—deer grass; M`Kinnon—St. John's wort; APLachlan —mountain ash; M'Leau—blackberry heath; M'Leod—red wortle berries; M•Nab— rose black berries; M'Neil—seaware; M'Pherson variegated boxwood; MiQuarrie —black ...

Published: Thursday 25 February 1847
Newspaper: Glasgow Courier
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BURNTISLAND

... this season, were enforced; but what is the fact why, unmuzzled dogs are daily seen roaming about our streets, as thick as blackberries, unreproved and unapprehended, in the very face of the statute, which, were they learned enough to read and understand ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1848
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POET'S COH>ER. •MEG MERRILIES.” DT JOU.t KEATC9. Old Meg she was gipsy. And lived open the moors; Her bed it

... gipsy. And lived open the moors; Her bed it was the brown heath turf. And her house was out of doors. Her apples were swart blackberries, Her currauts, pods o’ broom ; Her wine was dew of the wild white rose, Her book churchyard tomb. Her brothers were the ...

Published: Thursday 07 September 1848
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 178 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Warwick Ptomey confirmed his sister’s statements

... She sated, that Mary was in her eighth year, and Margaret in her seventh. Early in the day, asked leave of her to tor blackberries. Some time in the afternoon she asked Lucinda if she intended to ; but Ij. said she would wait until the children returned ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1838
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 585 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MR. WELLER IN THE CHARACTER OF A GRANDFATHER

... infants as ever heerd tell on, includin' them aswos kivered over the robin redbreasts arter they'd committed sooicide with blackberries, there never any like that 'ere little Tony. He's alvays a playin' with a quart pot that boy is ! To see hi a sittin' down ...

Published: Friday 03 July 1840
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

and anon appearing on the and making for the high land of Hoy, which is one of the eashest land

... stunted shoots of the mountain ash [sorbus aucuparia]} make their appearance. The juni- per bush is here very common. ‘The black-berried beath grum), and the blaeberry bush (vac- cinium myrtillus), are also abundant. The berries of these two last are ga- thered ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1805
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

PERTH MARKETS

... fine, a Second do. •••••• «> «to te M New potatoes, per peck. Green pease Is per peck. Strawberries, «d to ikl per pint. Blackberries, 5d per pint. Currants, 4.1 per do. , Beef, 5d ro 9d; mutton, to veal, 4d tosd, pork, 4d to Od; lamb, 4ri to Sequestration’ ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1835
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 200 | Page: 3 | Tags: none