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... ;;; Death fbom the Bite or a Viper.— On Thursday afternoon a little boy and girl, aged 11 and 9 respectively, went out blackberrying. They made their way into Handsworth Wood, near Birmingham, and were busy in their search for the berries, when something ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... stream of life as has been flowing to him through the eyes. There are eyes which give no more admission into them than blackberries; others are liquid and deep wells that men might fall into; and others are oppressive and devouring, and take too much ...

The meeting terminated at about three o’clock

... the way, a did Shakapeare uses the word in the sense of scold ”. It prevails in the Craven district 306. Scaubberkies, n. Blackberries. In Yorkshire ll*d bumbLelcites. SOT. Schollabd, ». It is the word “scholar”; but the form is not unreasonable, following ...

A CRIMINAL MANIAC

... advantages since the discovery of the electric telegraph and the establishment of railways. A great demand has lately arisen for blackberry wine. It is shipped in great quantities to India, being a most valuable remedy for chronic dysentery. The census of Canada ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1860
Newspaper: Luton Times and Advertiser
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2353 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CONVICT DISCIPLINE

... with tho exception of those on guard, seek the grateful shade of tho woods. Some may bo found a mile from camp, picking blackberries, others visiting tho few miserable farmhouses in tho vicinity in soarch of good water or fresh milk —for tho latter they ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1863
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2656 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DUNSTABLE

... Yates and Maria Tapp, of summoned for wilfully destroying a fi ul w Q ] the 19th ult. The defendants stated they j3cnc j blackberrying, and never th ® ® 6(J cogtg> convicted them: damage 6d. each, obstructing the to be committed for one month 'aum- Sighway ...

TRAGEDY NEAR MANCHESTER. the b ED O D POST OFFICE. A tragedy, horrible in its details, has just been committed

... Devonport and Saltash, was on Saturday afternoon last the scene of a very shocking accident. Three little boys had been blackberrying in the locality, and in returning home took their way across the viaduct which spans the wide creek leading from the Hamoaze ...

A GLANCE AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS

... me, and you call this discontent? These are mere straws to show the direction of the wind.” REASONS FOB PISCO ENT PLENTT BLACKBERRIES.” you want reasons for ? I will give you enough. Now. listen this. In the first place, the taxation of the Venetian provinces ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1860
Newspaper: Luton Times and Advertiser
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2845 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRESIDENT JOHNSON

... season was over in lobruary. have for weeks been living on cucumbers, green peas, new potatoes, summer squashes, and our blackberries being just gone, wo are finishing up the last of the currants, raspberries, plums, &c., while arc waiting for the peaches ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1865
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3410 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GENERAL news

... the fields at Weston, in which there a public footpath. We went from the path to the be ige for the purpose of picking blackberries. I saw defendant with the governess abt ut twenty yards from me. He had stick in his hand, with which he was trying to ...

AMERICA

... to each other in the twilight. We think it as pretty a sight as the eye need have to see the woodcock flutter up from the blackberry bushes or the fernbrake, and thread his way in and out among the trees ; or the hare burst in a shower of dewdrops from ...

ON A LITTLE GIRL

... changing season showed, Not where the violet in spring time blew, Unseen by thee the clust’ring wild rose fair, Nor tempting blackberry thy palate knew. Within some glassy brooklet hadst not watched The fish disporting there, a myriad throng, Nor sat upon ...