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... or that anybody is so connected with him. The cases of abduction of children are becoming almost as common in Dublin as blackberries in the country. The last newspapers received from Ireland detail the circumstances connected with the removal, by Roman ...

Published: Friday 04 May 1860
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 780 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LECTURE ON CEYLON

... of the highest point, the traveller recogt] bell Sl»t the friends of his youth—the scattered , the huttercnp, the tangled blackberry aud a Prise t and he heard once more with delighted Pi-ett k meUow of the blackbird seated on by - The scene on the road ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1860
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 835 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

pi*rings from Fundy

... and knew Miss Griffith would have to go back along the bye-road • so he went down among the bustles, and pretended to be blackberrying. When the girl came along he had provided himself with a club about three feet long and an inch thick. As she passed him ...

Published: Thursday 13 September 1860
Newspaper: Bristol Daily Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3785 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY

... parts of Ireland that on Old Saint Michael's Eve (18th October) the Devil, to spite the saint, puts his foot on all the blackberries, and that after that night the fruit assumes a nauseous taste—possibly the hair-dye should be manufactured after that date ...

Published: Monday 15 October 1860
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... CREWS lior.r--A sad accident occurred yesterday afternoon, at Crew's Hole, to a boy named Henry Holloway. He was picking blackberries in a hedge in his father's garden when he accidentally fell over into the lane, and received so severe an injury to his ...

Published: Tuesday 30 October 1860
Newspaper: Bristol Daily Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1064 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

anantett

... Honourable. Failing here, as a last resource, there remains your M.P. But oratorical M.P.'s in October are as plentiful 'as blackberries, and are not certain to draw a crowded house. A Peer is good for many reasons. Firstly, many people have never seen one ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1860
Newspaper: Bristol Daily Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1858 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.—LETTER FROM A BRISTOL EMIGRANT

... there ?' and this personal and rather offensive inquiry is repeated at every corner. Muskets and rifles are as plentiful as blackberries ; the very boys are often armed, and you see a man driving his bullock cart, with whip in one hand and rifle in tbe other ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1860
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 621 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ANSWERS TO THE CONUNDRUMS IN MONDAYS

... Bobs go out. 85. A little before Eve. 86. Because they dwell in the land of Ire (Ireland). 37. They go black burying (blackberrying). 38. Because we never know what may turn up. 39. It should be returned. 40. The river Styx (sticks). 41. The dog-star ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1860
Newspaper: Bristol Daily Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1459 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SONNET. I cannot leave thee, dearest, I cannot say adieu. For thou to art aeorast. So loving and ao true

... rapidly converting into continuous street, was my day, n rustic ami somewhat dusty highway, (dusty it still Is), with (be blackberry bushes on one side. These are changes all for the better I admit, (hough one misses the old familiar übjeets. Nearly tbe ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1861
Newspaper: Bristol Times and Mirror
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 5619 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

vessels to lie

... proitii,e of , vcelheie. The ,deject ive Las been studied with can.. and the 1d010n. of the honey-suckle. and Linea vf tl,e blackberry, in part ieular, are rendered with trathfulto. Often turvis with. 'the pi,enn i. it. :•4 \V. 1.1.-.—. tn elegant 1..”4 ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1861
Newspaper: Bristol Daily Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3023 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN COD FISHING

... length, swarming with fish. I have been two or three times becalmed there, and caught cod as big as donkeys and as plenty as blackberries. Upon that information Capt. Rhodes acted. He had often thought of trying it, but it is lonely place to to alone, St. ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1861
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 637 | Page: 3 | Tags: none