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ARRIVAL OF THE FREE KIRK COLONISTS AT OTAGO

... leaders; but the 5 and 10 acre men arc subduing the flax swamps and making the town garden, and grapes are as thick as blackberries.” The writer comment* the exaggerated view* which the English holder* of land order* appear to entertain of the value of ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1848
Newspaper: Nairnshire Mirror
County: Nairn, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Scotland

... Scotland. Destratts Bencna.—Liberal candidates for our burghs are as plentiful as blackberries: We ought rather to say r.•puted candidates. We stated a fortnight ago that Sir Alexander Johnstone of Carnsalloch was fairly in the field ; and that Mr. Ewart ...

ENGLAND

... there is fence of any description,and,on September 4, complainant thought it no harm to enter the plantation and gather blackberries. She had ascended some distance upon the incline, when the defendant made bis appearance and IP ordered her to start from ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1846
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 499 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A PRODIGIOUS WHALE

... considered -an undoubted proof If oit. - .'LASENTABLE SUPrkSTITrOxN.-A species of blight ti or grub has settled on the blackberry leaves, gnawing them P in a sefpentine manner, so that the dead fibre shows thtoug& thL e remaining green.- It will hardly ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1825
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1147 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

finST CLASS

... On sheep farms, the season has been highly favourable. Ewes have been abundantly prolific, and twin lambs as plentiful blackberries. As a contrast to the dry sultry weather which have experienced here, may mention that our friends on the west coast have ...

Published: Monday 15 June 1829
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 471 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE YEARS OF A HOUSE OF COMMONS

... people at large. h a fourth session, then, patriots increase in untold numbers in the House of Commons. They are as thick as blackberries on a hedge. The wishes of the people are taken into consideration. Ministers are snubbed and thwarted by the very drudges ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1844
Newspaper: Glasgow Chronicle
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF BEES FOR COTTAGERS

... FOR COTTAGERS. Bees may be made source of considerable profit, especially where broom, heath, wild thyme, lime trees, and blackberries abound, as well as white clover and other wild flowers. With these advantages they will store up, tolerable seasons, large ...

MISCELLANEOUS. The Royal Society has awarded the Copley medal to Mr J. C. Adams for his calculations respecting ..

... was sent to fetch the bulletin which I would have kept me from a nice party, that was to go out for the ! gathering of blackberries, I complained, with tears in my eyes, to my i brother Daniel, about this de'il of an auld wife that would neither die 1 ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1848
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 1239 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... were re] — pliments to mamma has had a better and is on very nicely.’ And thas the for advanta every ‘nice that was made ‘blackberries,’ or any other could not last portance. , that been so in; was about to too, was at the upon young culprits. This, ‘But ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1849
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 614 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MEW VERSION OP THE BABES THE WOOD. By Tom Ingoldtby. • Having thought on the now and the When To

... ruffian his dear comrade Jack buries; Then he cries, Lores, amuae youraelres here With the hips, and the haws, and the blackberries *' IH be back in a eouple of shakes; So dears, be quivering and quaking ; I'm going to get you some cakes. And a nice butter'd ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1842
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 542 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... Ugh its ktead y 6 nian y-«hining leaves * r (iv e . ld id some orange o '? chsld rcU g hours play, And feast on hips and blackberries truant school-boy gay; Or eager plunge in cool pellucid stream, Heedless, that Summer's sultry day fled; Or muse, as breathes ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1805
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 490 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

Foreign Intelligence

... (Andrew and Lucinda) told her they would show her good blackberry patch that evening, and Lucinda told her 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 ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 1838
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5254 | Page: 2 | Tags: none