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... and, if we may believe the last accounts, was already the heroine of the day. Sonnets and serenades were plentiful as blackberries. ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1851
Newspaper: Alloa Advertiser
County: Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A RATTLESNAKE STORY

... A RATTLESNAKE STORY. Last fall, woman residing in the vicinity of Worcester was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, bright-eyed little fellow of less than a year old. The babe sat upon tbe ground in a square ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 1852
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE PENALTIES PAID FOR BEING A HERO

... hero of, and that those that made me so should at once repent. Mucb better may easily be had. The crop is as plentiful as blackberries. Crimeans are everything now, are everywhere, and though wild looking and hirsute animals, are easily caught. Ido not at ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1856
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 413 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STOREKEEPING AT BENDIGO DIGGINGS

... a struggle to come out here; and so they ought, too, for there is room enough for a!!. Man ! money here is plentiful as blackberries the barrack hills in harvest time. grinding soul and body for scanty subsistence! Let artizans all classes come in thousands; ...

Published: Thursday 10 February 1853
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 553 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHITBURN FARMERS' SOCIETY

... old—lst, Mr Thos. Geddes, Whitburn; 2d, Mr Graham, East Whitburn. the best pair of Cows- lst, Mr Smith; 2d, Mr Geo. Wallace, Blackberry Hill. the best Cow in milk, and 2 of her offspring—lst, Thos. Geddes; 2d, Mr John Montgomery. or the best Quey in milk, ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1851
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 507 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

An Avtnon’s Yarmouth the Sth ult. about one ‘clock. The sea raged , and a ship's boat, en- deavouring to

... subscril that they possess in the black-berry, grown so unwillingly by them in their fields, the means at once 1g an excellent wine and valuable medicine for home use. To make a wine equal in value to take ripe black-berries and press them, let the juice ...

Published: Thursday 06 October 1853
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2096 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COLLISION ON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY

... it „'Lk denied that they presented a shocking appearance heeding noses, scarred foreheads, bumps, and bra' plentiful as blackberries, and it was only those who cpU ' fortune to insure their bodies before they started who ))( , e» comforted under the affliction ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1851
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 728 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AN AYRSHIRE OPINION OF THE MOVEMENT

... considering the number of summer tourist* always gauding about the Bridge of Allan and vicinity. Apologies were as thick as blackberries. Even Alexander Baillie Cochrane, Esquire, the descendant and representative of Sir William Wallace, through his daughter ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1856
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 879 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POPULAR LECTURES

... lecturer read, with great effect, one or two of Hood's most admired poetic effusions in which puns are thrown about like blackberries in hedges—the Waterloo Ballad” being received with much laughter by the audience, as was likewise the amusing narrative ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1853
Newspaper: Alloa Advertiser
County: Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 851 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... wark, t'wife.'s» javvs and t'bairns jaws wark afore we gat 'em all cracked {-—Gateshead Observer. Blackberry Wine.—There no wine equal to the blackberry wine when properly made, either in flavour or for m«dicinals purposes, and afi persons who can co ...

Published: Thursday 07 October 1858
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2055 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DOMESTIC NEWS

... Heyworth, one of the county police, who asked them where they had been to, when they replied that they had been gathering blackberries. This was opposite to Greenlane. Soon afterwards, Heyworth was returning towards Liverpool, and saw the children about ...

Published: Thursday 22 September 1853
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2442 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Literature

... Smith in the first rank of our first writers. Throughout the whole poem, beauties are as plentiful as blackberries, and more plentiful than blackberries ever are until stript from the bush they grow on; and here there is neither bush nor branch, nor any ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 1853
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3955 | Page: 2 | Tags: none