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... climbed on her hands and knees to the top of Ben-na-Bourd, actually outstripping Prince Albert, and gathering the garland of blackberries and heather-bells, wrought by the shepherd lasses, and presented by the courtiers to the winner. The high glee and robust ...

RACES PAST

... yrs—Lynch Mr Johnston’s ch Elemi, aged Mr Knaresboro's b m Portia, 4 yrs Mr Hyland’s b m Alagrette, 5 yra Mr Stewart’s bl g Blackberry, by Dogbriar, out of Duam, yrs, broke down Royal Corporation Plats—Sweepstakes of 5 gs. each for county of Down bred Hunters ...

NOTES ON THE MONTHS

... by the bine. In the country places, village children prepare for a day in the woods, or in the lanes, to gather nuts or blackberries. Ah ! what glorious days those were of our early nuttings! To wander through the old woods, along paths trod by deer; sometimes ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1850
Newspaper: Huddersfield Chronicle
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1371 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EXPOSE OF THE DRAINING System

... Chirk .5,000 We could swell the enumeration with a host of reverend names, the parson applicants being as plentiful as blackberries-but we refrain. Let this disbursement be honestly considered. Are the parties we have declared voluntary seekers of public ...

Published: Sunday 15 September 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1324 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

POETRY

... trees, And left golden stain. Hedgerows aro fair F-ui/ing old lanes, round green and cottei I at, ) With hip and haw, the blackberry and e!oe. T.ovely albe moor, with brinht flowers everywhere. Sweet the new song of redbreast warbling low. SONNET. —THE ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1850
Newspaper: Birmingham Journal
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1505 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SPORTING

... and other eminent persons have bestowed upon it. As it is, clubs spring like mushrooms, and club matches are plentiful blackberries, and far too many for ns Chronicle. Saturday match came off between a number of young gentlemen styling themselves The ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1850
Newspaper: Westmorland Gazette
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1419 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS

... arts of no mean character, where, fifty years ago, it was a proverbial taunt to the natives, that they could not get even a blackberry to ripen. ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1620 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... that if our life had been as short as theirs, they would have totally defeated us in the competition for nuts and ripe blackberries. 1 can hardly agree to this extravagant statement; but I think, in a life of twenty years, the efforts of the human mind ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1850
Newspaper: Worcestershire Chronicle
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1770 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

k ILSSItt ir I lltth Police Entrlligentt

... Hielaiitr. The eolibtable p-sW the defendant log t 'y the hedge Wde in the field at 10 o'clock on slay morning last, getting blackberries. .1 he defendant ilitaitte I the charge, and in cousuleration of his age be ordy ordered to pay the constable's t nes. ...

Published: Friday 13 September 1850
Newspaper: Nottingham and Newark Mercury
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1728 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Correspondence

... ? P ; the town—and lhat for the fountains)l^. 0 ' a plunging-baths, shower-baths, all manner 0 f bath* *' Sl plenty as blackberries ; window-cleaning an amusement!! f least, a dirty window thing to be pointed at— Attorneys keep their windows clean now ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1850
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2004 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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 ...