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811PrEMBER GATHERINGS FROM GRZENIUM

... the kindness shown them. • Blackberrying is now is full awing, and many a gatherer of this wild but tasty fruit, is now to be seen busily engaged along the hedges or among the bushes on Greenbam Common. This year the blackberry is in prolific supply, and ...

AUGUST. The golden sheaves are gleaming in the sun On many bristling stubble: the lank grass Has suffered all its

... bristling stubble: the lank grass Has suffered all its brightest green to pass: The leaves are losing all that summer won The blackberries are ripening one by one : The hazel nuts are browning on the trees ; While 'mid the clover-blossoms all the bees Are toiling ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1884
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 118 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

RURAL NOTES

... positively bristled with them!) blackberry his seed wheat. Some farmers imagine that aimed parties have in some measure taken their place. any kiadof wheat will do to sow, while a matter of Blackberry picnics and blackberry teal, generally take fact a pattern ...

Vineland, New Jersey, which was uninhabited forest six years ago, produced and shipped to New York and ..

... canned by a company of that place, 28,000 quarts, and 40,000 quarts were consumed at home. It is said that the crop of blackberries will be fully as large, but of raspberries there will not be so large a crop. Tlie official report for the week ending ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1867
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FARNBOROUGH

... ; thatuatis personae, Toby Tweedteton, Mr. Shirley; Barnahy Bracebutton, Edwards; Mr. Pantechnicon Pantile, Mr. Russell; Blackberry Thistletop, Mr. Dayton; Evelina Bracebutton, Miss Booth; Kitty Spruce, Mrs. Dumper. A fish out of water, dramatis personal ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1891
Newspaper: Reading Standard
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LOCAL NOTES. A letter received a few days since from Sir Robert Loyd Litulaay states that he is rapidly gaining

... which should be known as the blackberrying holiday. As it may interest some of our fair readers, we append a letter to hand from a lady correspondent : Having read in your valuable paper of the goodness of blackberries, I send you a reveipe, if you ...

STEALING APPLES

... conviction against the defendant at Reading, when she was sent to gaol for four months.—The defendant said she was out blackberrying when ehe gathered few apple«.-The defmdant was fined 6d, the cost, being remitted—The Chairman gave her a caution. CON ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1898
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

attendants of autumn. Behold the signs and vrsrmngs Of autumn —misty mornings, Ere earlier shadows flinging, ..

... mellow, Mixed red. and brows, and yellow, As we grow grey, old fellow Abroad the orchin rambles, And rummages the brambles, Blackberries bent picking, For all the thorns keep sticking Into his fingers—pricking. Philosophers resemble The rooks, that now assemble ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1859
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 154 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NEWBURY COUNTY POLICE COURT

... in the parish of Speen. Mary Drewatt deposed that on the day in question she was in the gravel pit at Ownham, picking blackberries, when the defendant came up and committed the assault complained of. Defendant attempted throw her down, when she shouted ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1878
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BERKS PETTY SESSIONS

... labourer living in the same pari .— The com| said that on Monday last she went into a lane near the Wolf publichouse to pick blackberries. She met who was with another young man, and he her to into the Forest. She was with a little younger than herself, and ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1869
Newspaper: Windsor and Eton Express
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NORTH HAGBOURNE

... funds. 'fbere was • very large attendance. Tbe following was the pro gramme :—Ctionts by the school boys and girls, The blackberry gatherers; sctioo song by school boys, Cobbler, make me • bout; song, The little Dune, Emily Wheeler; action song, ...

Published: Friday 25 December 1891
Newspaper: Reading Standard
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ALLEGED ASSAULT AT BUCKLEBURY-

... guilty.—From the girl’s evidence it appeared that she was going to school with her little nrothers and sisters, and picked blackberries on ihe way. Elizabeth Cripps caught hold of her hair, threw her down, and took hold of her throat. Alice* Oripps bit her ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1898
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 8 | Tags: none