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Date

1850 - 1899
8 1890-1899

Place

Valletta, Malta, Malta

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BAD MONEY

... BAD MONEY. Bad money in Malta is becoming as plentiful as blackberries are in season. Not content with turning out bogus shillings, the busy counterfeiters have now turned their attention to the manufacture of the modest ' tanner' and the sprightly florin ...

CA RITA' SIGNORI!

... specimen of the genus beggar—for on this particular flight of steps beggars are as plentiful as blackberries— not a good simile, by the way, for blackberries 'dont' grow in Valletta) —k% hy shonldn't I be starving as well as he? I t 4-11 von—that ten ...

ADVENTURES OF A CONVICT

... donned clerical clothes he walked boldly from the house. A few days later a police-constable saw a clergyman feeding on blackberries, and noticing that he was eating ravenously became suspicious. The clergyman did not appear in the least nonplussed at ...

PARTING

... journeys to unknown and distant lands—but the pain of parting was just as acute then as now. To-day, partings are plentiful as blackberries, and so the grief of mankind is plentiful in proportion. The friend who was with you every day, on whom you relied for ...

LOCAL NEWS

... LOCAL NEWS. —Festa-lovinv pople are undoubtedly in their glory during the summer season. The celebrations are as thick as blackberries and every other day there seems to be a festival in some part of the Island. The festival of St. Lawrence is commemorated ...

The Daily Malta Chronicle ANNUAL PICNIC. CATHOLIC SOLDIERS AND SAILORS How FLORIANA

... between St. Julians and Musta can imagine that the scenery was not an all absorbing topic of conversation. The absence of blackberries on the hedges was very marked. On reaching Musta a visit was made to the church the beauties of which are well worth a ...

The Daily Malta Chronicle

... avenues of pomegranates, clothed with bright flowers, taking special care to dip our heads when the branches of the familiar blackberry were mingled with the wild African growth. Later we came to the open country, and were refreshed with the breeze blowing ...

The Daily Malta Chrbnicle

... e)lindical residences in the mud, and wriggled their wrath when cleared out; leeches two inches long, were as plentiful as blackberries, and the sides of the tubes were coated with colonies of shell snails, like the barnucled hulks of Turkish men of war. ...