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ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE

... discussion on the rela- tive merits of Horsecy, Finchley, Wanstead, Epping, and Woodford, as suitable places of resort for blackberry gather. ing. At last September came, and the first jaunt took place. We took our dinners with us in our bags, though many ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 949 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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 

SEASONABLE GIFTS

... siclly Mrs Lnzarus and thecbhildren, wtho, poor things ! hivo a practical knowledge of nb fruit more costly thas apples an'd blackberries. ind even Dives'early class-fellow, Urbanus, not' so undistinguished oir au unsuccessnl man, who it'nov mwaking a fair ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1104 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

GREAT FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE NEAR ABBEOKUTA

... was per- .p- feetly naked, and had a cord tied tightly round rs- theneck. Two boys came up at thetime gather. is- irng blackberries, and they went to fetch a police- )w man. A nurse at the Nottingham Union Work- oh house remembered the child being born ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1237 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Provincial Intelligence

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

Published: Monday 29 December 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1445 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LEGAL PREFERMENT THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR

... the Whigs are notoriously lucky; and when they are in office, pieces of preferment are sure to fall in as plentifully as blackberries. ‘There is not a single ex-Attorney or ex-Solicitor-General of theirs unprovided for; but poor Sir Frederick Thesiger and ...

Published: Thursday 10 February 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1499 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DEFENCE OF CÆSAR

... opirpbser6. 'snake busines' may. be.' overMOee, and the.mar .ketglutted. Tbe lot ,abovejquotcd wassentin by a Sonth-Jersey blackberry pickerjandXrealqed 'higher: piices thah n similar- lo last ye1r-pro- 'bably. owing tb thest'jlo iii 4which tbeyvwei'e put ...

Published: Tuesday 01 August 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1292 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ORIGIN OF THE PLOT OF GUY MANNERING

... costume has strikingly supported this view.- Critic. MMlUnORIES oF Bo11iiooc-Tho crowning joys were b huttercupping and blackberrying. As soon as the spring warmth brought forth the golden dandolions, and gave a now greenness to the grass in Stcpney churchyard ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1554 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

REMARKABLE CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

... nor the following, but no attention had been wa paid to that fact. On the third day some off children, whq were picking blackberries near the At village, were attracted by the unusual movements Of of a dog which accompanied them to a spot where thi he ...

LITERATURE

... mood. But the sun besmsgladly on the woods and fields that smile back upon him. as in an old and confiding affection. The blackberries hang thick or tie hedges; the mushroom springs white and fresh in the green pasture; the g-ornetrie spider hangs its web ...