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THE LAND OF BLACKBERRIES

... whither we went from Stepney at eight years of age Blackberrying. We knew almost every dell, and cover, and tangled copse, and from any path could lead you direct to the richest garden of blackberries. We knew the haunts of Hornsey, and Finchley, and ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

-THE AMERICAN FRUIT CROP

... birds on New Hampshire hills are feasted with raspberries, the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are purple with blackberries which go to waste, and the time has been when an extra good crop of peaches in Delaware has meant a million baskets of ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1878
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 438 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SHOCKING DEATH IN A RAILWAY TUNNEL,

... Leicester Infir- mary, where she died soon after, without having re- covered consciousness. In her pockets were found some blackberries, with two shillings and eightpence, but nothing whatever which would serve to identify her. It has not been discovered ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

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... rabbits, digging vertically into the burrow just where the nest is. They are very fond of acorns, nuts, &c., and will pick blackberries off the' brambles. When out for food they hunt with their snout on the ground like' tne pig; their sense of smell does ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1877
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Cfte €team of Ijiturb

... rarity of true friendship, but this must be a gloomy libel on human nature, for sincere friends, if not as plentiful as blackberries, are at least as numerous as newspapers. We put it to the experience of all readers of the public journals—either daily ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 610 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUR LIBRARY TABLE

... Wimbledon. A BLACK OFFENCE. —-We understand that tha Jamaica Council have determined to prosecute any persons who are found black-berrying. THE HEALTH OF TEE METROPOLIS.—MUCH. TIRPRE may be looked for about the time of harvest invariably a sickle-y season. ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A YOWNG LADY AT LEEDS

... had expended upon her. The evidence of Friday went to show that while on a visit at Barnsley she had i,eaten so freely of blackberry pie as to bring on an attack of diarrhoea; on Monday, the 18th, Dr. Mayne fetched her home, and she died on Wednesday from ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 695 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

... the mush- rooms, boil up for two minutes; serve the sauce over the outlets. This sauce is sufficient for seven outlets. BLACKBERRY WnM.—TalM twelve quatte _of befriei When fully ripe, and crush them with: the hand. Boil ilix gallons of water with twelve ...

Published: Friday 02 November 1883
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 757 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

i ^ THE ' pttitt0«tfjs|tre lUediit

... the recognition of the (0,i probably soon be in circula- 0llg the finest pisantry in the world. crimes are plentiful as blackberries. ^teiQnon— t° qaote a passage from a letter published by a contemporary— riftg 8tate of civil war all night revolvers ...

Published: Friday 06 August 1880
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 761 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR MISCELLANY. --

... anecdote of the Warrenton Rifle Corps. One day he told us that a countryman had come into camp with a quantity of blackberry pies. Blackberries in America are a much finer fruit than those ripened by our faint English sun, and are quite popular in their ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1863
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1752 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

UTtsrcllaiuous n1tlI1:gt:r

... Cii'loi 'im Miss. Which grumble well he might, a-tettin'a-Jarpenterin'in these 'ere draughts aU day, pore felier I -FWn. BLACKBERRIES.—If the present abundant crop of acorns offeis food only for pigs, at least humanity may rejoice over a truly marvellous ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1878
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3770 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PONTYPOOL

... reaped a fair share. Theatrical booths were few in number, but nut, orange, and ginger- bread sellers were as plentiful as blackberries, and the new swindle of selling a penny purse full of money (?) for a shilling-a transaction in which none but the greatest ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 8 | Tags: News