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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

AC CIJ) ENTSAXi>O F F E X C E S,

... barrels of his fowling piece at Jl girl sixteen years old, who had stepped front her father’s garden into plantation gather blackberries. Several shots entered into the poor girl’s body. Fhe Daily .\etff has the following remarks upon the occurrence reported ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1846
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1317 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCOT* BANKUrpTS

... aro to be a fair crop, but iiulhing more, unless a very superior makes up for a deficiency in 'piantity. Currants and blackberries oiler well, and stone fruit cherries, plums, Cxc. —arc promising to verv abundant. I atal AeeiDKNT. —On Tuesday se’ennight ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 1845
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 830 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LITERAKY LIFE IN PARIS

... literary fame divides his time between the study and the shooting gallery, the folio and the foil. There, daels are plenty as blackberries; and the editor of a daily paper wings his friend in the morning, and writes premier Paris in the afternoon, with equal ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1846
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1400 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCOTLAND

... also into lisrespect. The consequence was plain. There are preserves where the game well preserved that they are is thick blackberries on the plain. The poor tradesman, who is, perhaps, out of work at the time, and has a starving family—lnstead of encouraging ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1849
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1857 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VICISSITUDES OF ROYALTY

... solitude; there man has no share, his footsteps never tread. The ground around these dead sticks is covered with rasp and black-berry bushes, and there the solitary bear makes merry, and lives at his ease, for this is his garden, and who shall disturb him ...

Published: Thursday 02 November 1843
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1654 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

i At two o'clock the whole of the illitstrirstra party entered the picture gallery, where a grand collation was ..

... prevails. PIACI/CITY IN TWA PCLPIT.—At one time the stage was inundwed with boy actors; infant Roscimes were plentiful as blackberries ; little girls in trousers strutted ns tragedy queens; and little boys, scarcely emancipated from petticoats. raved as ...

POLITICAL EXTBACTS

... Father Mathew’s labours have done more depress the sLe than the foreign import. Excellent claret is he made from the Irish blackberry, and none hut traitors will drink Lafiite. But it were endless to enumerate (he commodities with the importation of which ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1840
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2130 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOCAL NEWS. PERTH IN

... pine; M'lntosh,boxwood; Mackay.bullrush; M'Kenrie, deer-grass; M'Kinnon, St. John*s wort; M'Lachlan, mountain ash; M'Lean, blackberry heath; M'Leod, red wortlo berries; M'Nab, rose back berries; M'Neil, seaware; M'Pberson, variegated boxwood; MacQuarrie ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1847
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 3298 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

From the Times )

... delightful, and quite like that of England. The highest point the thermometer had reached since the troops landed wav degrees.— Blackberries, the common Scotch fir, sorrell, rosemary, turnips, walnuts, magpies, blackbirds, larks, &c. are mentioned the produce ...

Published: Thursday 17 December 1840
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4118 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

fit had toteceeded in destroying the retreats of the pirates i n the islands of Tann tb, Djampea, and Kalortoes,

... do jestiee. Like Falstaff they would not render justice on rompulsion—no. though the reasons for it were as plentiful as blackberries. They never (we must do them this justice) had the audacity to proclaim in so many words lust the General Assembly might ...

LOCAL NEWS

... utter mortification, they found that, instead of fine stuff,” they had got merely coloured water, as tasteless as October blackberries. Information being given to the Police, the fellow was apprehended Monday, and handed over to the Sheriff. About seven ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 1843
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 4824 | Page: 3 | Tags: none