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mr. Samuel weller and his father. (From 44 Master Humphrey Clock So. VI) The last extract which we made from

... as ever I heerd tell on, includin’ them as wos kivered over by the robin redbreasts arter they’d committed soeicide with blackberries, there never any like that ’ere little Tony. He’s alvays playin’ vith a quart pot that boy is! To see him a settiu’ down ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1840
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 727 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FASHION AND TABLE-TALK

... you know you had burning fever all night.” Oh mother ! 1 know blackberry pudding won’t hurt me.” Stop wtuning, Laury,* interrupted the father. give her a bit, dear ; I never heard of blackberry pudtling hurting any body.” A cry w;is heard from the adjoining ...

Published: Tuesday 05 November 1844
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2662 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Nuisances

... when the child was without shoes and stockings, and so very lame that she could acarc.-ly walk. face was stained with blackberries. The body presented a shocking spectacle. Some medical gentlemen who examined it, did not find any marks of violence. In ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1825
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A BOLD STROKE FOR A HUSBAND

... Nobleman.” “ And so you thought to get a Nobleman for two sbillinyt?” said Mr. Harmer.—“ Why, if Noblemen were as plentiful as blackberries you could hardly hope to buy them at 2s a piece.” Oh! but I gave her great deal more. Sir,” replied the simple but aspiring ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1826
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 850 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PHENOMENA OF THE SEASON

... the back of the leaves, which are their parts of fructification. The leaves of the Beech tree now assume yellow tinge. Black-berries are now ripe, and the collecting of them affords an agreeable pastime to the yonnger branches of the peasant’s family, ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1844
Newspaper: Belfast Protestant Journal
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1163 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SFartetus

... parts the coasts of Northumberland and Durham. The framework knitters near Leicester find it more profitable to gather blackberries for sale than to pursue their ordinary occupation. Emigration from county Fermanagh present more than usually brisk, owing ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1846
Newspaper: Belfast Protestant Journal
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1213 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AND ALSO FOR THE

... altogether unproductive. Long live Respectability I long live Bubbles!! Cure for Dysentery. A decoction of the roots of blackberry bushes (Rubus Occidentalis) is a safe, sure, and speedy cure for the dysentery. This receipt was obtained from the Oneida ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1825
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2617 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE VINDICATOR, BELFAST. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMB

... choose to blest, or the Lord help me.” Another pause our proceedings, during which a company of ragged boys, who had been black-berrying, came up. and planted themselves, with every symptom of vulgar curiosity, around the carriage. Miss Norman had now no ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1841
Newspaper: Vindicator
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3793 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

... FAHKBLL, Mu,or (&re, Waterford mad BLACKtIAM, Nmmry, (9«« rflrrtfD iJonn?. THE LEGEND OF RUBEZ.\III_ Green grow the bwiding blackberry hedge* ; What joy violet meets quest! The blackbird seeks the last year's sedgss. Tbs chaffinch also builds her oest. The ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1844
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1158 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STANT JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1847

... the maintenance of religion other respects. In times of electioneering excitement, professions are cheap and “plenty as blackberries;” but what the Protestants of Belfast really want, is men who, from sober conviction, are attached to Protestant truth ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1847
Newspaper: Belfast Protestant Journal
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1319 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

{ For the Relfost Commercial Chronicle. )

... situation, by culture, and by climate. Hips and haws now ornament the b The berries of the bryony and the privet; the m’, the blackberry, the holly, and the elder—from which is - .ade the famous winter wine of Old England's peasantry —with sloes, bullaces, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1823
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1275 | Page: 4 | Tags: none