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Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser

PITTS’S

... with small pox, but every person of mature age can testify that in their young days pock-marked faces were ‘‘as common as blackberries” as the saying is There have been small pox outbreaks in recent years, chiefly if not solely confined to those districts ...

CORRESPONDENCE

... often a woman or a delicate girl doing this for week, for threepence I conld get more money by winding quills, or gathering blackberries, or even by gathering horse-muck on the highway. And then there the very considerable saving in the labour of washing, ...

FOREIGN MISCELLANY

... the 12th ult., tells the following thrilling tale:—“ Last fall a woman residing in the vicinity of Worcester, was picking blackberries in a field near her bouse, having with her her only child, a bright-eyed little fellow of lets than a year old. The babe ...

IRELAND

... and entirely disproved.” A Man Found Hanging Plantation.— Friday afternoon, about half-past three, a man was gathering blackberries in a plantation at Great Lever, ho found the body of a young man suspended from a tree, bv a rope fastened round the neck ...

■ CHBONICLE, FBIDAY; NOVEMBER 30, 1894

... Ur. U. F. Borrows, the second to Ur. R. Leigh. Ur. T. L. Syms exhibited two magnificent carbon prints genre studies, *■ Blackberrying,” which gained the bronze medal the Royal Aquarium, London, and “The Pedlar,” which was ooasidered a good picture as the ...

Jfimik Jlratings

... my life, but what of that it has been one long worship of you. I hare loved you over since tho d lys when used to gather blackberries in the lanes with your nurse, and dig for pretty s in sand.” paused with emotion. Ella felt more scare l with every word ...

THE httbonTOLE. FRIDAY. AUGUST 4, 1893 Leigh v. Bbdkwo match tbia aeacoa between thM* P » Saturday tbd ..

... Smith before he had scored, but George Parr and Boyle forced the game and caused at » terrific- Four, jreress plentiful as blackberries, and both Smith Md Bowker were handled score at Boyle was caught the wicket, ana eleven runs later Parr, after scoring ...

BDROLAEY BY A WOMAN

... his wife was the Tuesday following, when she had some mussels, tqken very ill, and on Thurday he went for Dr. buttermilk, blackberry wine, and other things improper Smith, who attended her. Tho prisoner told Dr. for a person in her state of health, got ...

births, fliarriages, and bead's. MARKIAGL

... Greenhelgh. and she remembered the ditch that used to run alongside of where tie footpath now was. She had got many quarts of blackberries alongside the ditch and during her time the people who lived at the lied Lion owned the land in question, for she had seen ...

CHAPTER V

... no mannscripts sent in save those which are either valueless or run on the old lines. ” “Geniuses ore not so plentiful blackberries,” returned Mr. Moucell, “and the old lines have least the merit of being safe. We have not yet heard what you think of ...

To tie Editor\

... autumnal harvest of nuts, or lofty mountain!, through whose many paths people waudere seeking the wild berry, the and the blackberry. Imagine table, it need not be expensively set, which weald suggest to the singer, verses to poet, pictures an artist, and ...

ATHERTON LOCAL BOARD

... former played in I tomraaTweful style, whilst his colleague Jut out at almost everything and fonts became as plentiful blackberries September. The score had reached 40 when Hotrobin was well caught for 18, and Smith came in but only to l ...