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December 7, 1889]

... sentries,' guarding the approaches to the Cloud King,' Ruwenzori, on whose flanks, under the burning Equator, one can feed on blackberries and bilberries, and quench the thirst with crystal water fresh from the snow-beds ' ; and that between the larger of the ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1889
Newspaper: National Observer
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TRADE UNION CELEBRATIONS

... great catch, and even a dead statesman will serve the turn on occasion. Anniversaries are, as everybody knows, as thick as blackberries in a goon fruit season ; and the present generation often hears of events, of which it has previously known nothing, through ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1882
Newspaper: Weekly Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 675 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE HAI ,o.K.N OF THIC CLA?

... M'lntosh, bull-rush for M 'Kay, deer-grass for 3l'Kenzie, St. John's wort for .31'h:tenon, mountain ash for Nl'Lachlan, blackberry heath for M•Lean, red wortle-berries for M'Leod, roae buckberries for M•Nab, seaware for Mr Neil, variegated box for Maophrrson ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1888
Newspaper: Leith Burghs Pilot
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GENERAL NEWS

... the Court of Appeal at The Hague against the judgment of the Rotterdam Tribunal. Blackberries in February.—At Hastings a gentleman has on his table a spray blackberries gathered yesterday morning in the immediate vicinity of the town. There are upwards ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1896
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1398 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

[October 17, 1891

... have attained their full bearing capacity; and while they are still small you may grow gooseberries, rasps, currants, and blackberries, as well as vegetables of various sorts, in the opens between them. To plant eight hundred apple-trees and fifteen hundred ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1891
Newspaper: National Observer
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 672 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

SkIgKRUPTB

... are ou the track of the thieves, BOY Slums ar donaw—Os Toads,. • bay unmet! Banter went into • plantation about 5 to pick blackberries. In walling dm Lashes, fetus; barefooted, be was slang on the foot, near the toes, by adder. Oa Saba hirell wended he started ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1861
Newspaper: North Briton
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 585 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE NORTH BRITISH AGRICULTURIST. •

... (12295) — Mr. Stracbao, Wester Fowl*, gs. ; Harebell 2nd of East-town (12298)—George Copland, Aldgargue, Curse, 8} gs. ; Blackberry of East town (12291) John Birse, 6 gs. BULLS.—Baron Bloomsbury (5859)—James Bruce, Collithie, Gorily, 14 go. ; Sir Granville ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1888
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 504 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY

... swarming with fish. I have been two or three times be- calmed there, and caught cod as big as donkeys and as plenty as blackberries. Upon that infor- mation Captain Rhodes acted. He had often thought of trying it, but it is a lonely place to go to alone ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 656 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... gathering of blackberries for Liverpool and Manchester markets now provides profitable occupation, for the country people in Cheshire, whence enormous quantities are being sent away. mother and three children will earn 10s and 12s weekly by blackberry-picking ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1885
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1595 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

232 THE NATIONAL OBSERVER

... inevitably as the sparks from an electric jar; it has an innocent wildness of flavour, and a 'read' in it is like a feast of blackberries—a read' in (say) Margaret's Bridal Eve or The Song of Theodolinda. No one else has ever so expressed the sumptuousness ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1891
Newspaper: National Observer
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 683 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

HORRIBLE LYNCH LAW SCENES

... a highly-respectable farmer, named Lamb, living near Marshall. It appears that a number of children had gone to gather blackberries not far from the town, where the negro, who belonged to one of the neighbouring farmers, was at work in a field. According ...

Published: Wednesday 10 August 1859
Newspaper: North Briton
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 675 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE NATIONAL OBSERVEA

... every fence and thicket where the wild-rose blooms is ablaze with scarlet hips. Not for many a year have those who go a-blackberrying brought home baskets of fruit so large and ripe and juicy. And though '92 has been strangely favourable to the many vile ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1892
Newspaper: National Observer
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 683 | Page: 20 | Tags: none