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TWO BOYS SHOT FOR THROWING AT A PLUM-TREE

... afternoon, two Irish ly twelve and ten years, went into the coun to gather blackberries. wi as faras Warle igorn, where the prisoner resides, and began gathering blackberries from a hedge which separated his garden from the :meadow the boys were in. berts ...

Published: Thursday 12 October 1865
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE SCOTTISH PINE

... wild. On Nature’s bulwarks grey ; His plume waves the northern breeze, The shadows round him play. The bracken fern and blackberry Spring about his feet, While heath-crowned rocks, or hoary crags, O'er head oft nearly meet. The storms that blow so fierce ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1881
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A PARADISE FOR VEGETARIANS

... cress, tomatoes, mushrooms, ero-piunt, and scores other vegetables arc cultivated and lw-»^ W S b*rrieB, raspberries, blackberries, goosemes, wbortielierries, currants, and other berries flourish, scarcely day in the year when strawberries cannot market ...

Published: Thursday 16 December 1875
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COLLISION ON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY

... and riages could not be denied that when they had serambled out of the ear- 6 shockin fi ance. Black eyes, noes, ful as. blackberries, bumps and bruises, were ae plenti- and it was only those who had the gvod fortune to insure their bodies betlore started ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AT SHETLAND

... says—‘What a multitude people heard who had turned the corner of ninety years ! and the children are as thick as bees or blackberries. Ingram,* the Free Church minister Unst, the most northerly parish Her Majesty’s British dominions, in whose pulpit I preached ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1875
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH OF A SOMNAMBULIST

... quest. On another occasion, he eluded the vigilance of his parents about midnight, and went a long distance in search of blackberry bushes. His parents, who now reside Rossendal*, afterwards came to live in Shepherd Street, Bury, and there, on one occasion ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1876
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

lATHEIZEAS the Comm Council. of the Comm or COITHNISS received a Representation from the Paling COUNOIL of the ..

... County Council hereby intimate that it is proposed to take on lease (First), the Northern Portion of the Field known as BLACKBERRY QUOYS, part of the Farm of Freswick Mains, belonging to Edwin Sinclair Alexander Sinclair, Esquire of Freaffick, and tenanted ...

}TlrotTtttALl, APRdE 1874

... with Drown leaves, pale bine trimmed with pink may, almoad faille trimmed with HMesof the valley, pink trimmed with small blackberries and shaded leaves, are all cltarming. The Mack cartes are usually trimmed with black jet leaves mixed with jet oats, and ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1874
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE SCOTTISH METROPOLIS

... circumstances, but it may turn out that one such institution in the city w«s enough. As for public balls, these are thick blackberries on the bush. An amount of attraction attaches the very fine hall the Oddfellows, Forrest Hoad, which accommodates concerts ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1875
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WHICH NOBODY CAN DENY

... CAN DENY. The Government have been beaten all over the country tm overwhelming majority. Reasons for this are as plenty blackberries. Among them we may mention those of; Keen Political Observer—Because the weather has been dead against them all along. ...

Published: Thursday 22 April 1880
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FACETIAE

... ridiculous to call them black- Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit berries when they were red. * Don't you know,’ said his green — The World of Wit and Humour. friend, ‘that blackberries are always red when they are A witty clergyman, accosted ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1871
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1249 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Bee-Five

... who flounced my new frock, but ‘Cud’ (ber cousin) made the button-holes.’— Knickerbocker. Dry CLovups.—Two boys among the blackberry bushes, some mile or two out of town, saw a cloud } One, who was rising, and heard a sound like thunder. a littie timid ...

Published: Friday 23 March 1855
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: 4 | Tags: none