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FOOT NOTES THROUGH DORSET AND DEVON

... climb after it, a feat not at all cal- culated to make you happy if you are wearing knicker- bockers, and there are any blackberry plants in the fence. A sharp walk of a mile brought me to the intelligent man, whose kindness had saved me from a weary ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3223 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FOOT NOTES THROUGH DORSET AND DEVON

... After walking two or three miles down the muddy, but very beautiful, lane, occasionally stopping to gather a few ripe blackberries, or to inhale the perfume of some little wild flower, a still narrower lane led away sol thwards. A small sign-board informed ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3220 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FOOT NOTES THROUGH DORSET AND DEVON

... prisoner in Bedford gaol. Up hill, through th, some Devonshire lanes, in one of which a sturdy-legged of girl was gathering blackberries. Of course I spoke fr to her, and was answered in a dialect broader even than we the Dorsetshire. I had better not attempt ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5686 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES, &c

... like a hen stealing?-A cock robin (robbing). When auliggar dies, what do his frieads, -the other' niggers -Why they go a blackberrying (burning). to be sure. ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1863
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 6704 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... that ripe blackberries are now frequently to be found in the hedge-rows in this part of Devonshire and the borders X of Somerset. On the last day of the old year a youth I called Nelder, of this town, picked a very fine bunch of . ripe blackberries on Exeter-hill ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 10035 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LAST JOKE

... and laughs as heartily as ever. At his reception one evening last week in the White House the negroes were as thick as blackberries in Jersey. Among them was a coloured barber named Burke; be was an applicant for an office in the New York custom house ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1864
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 520 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

TRAVELS IN MARCH OF RECREATION

... too near t and too common to be worthy of notice.' It is an age of C Bibles in penny numbers; and you must not pluck a p blackberry from the roadside hedge; for does not the SI sacred volume prohibit all manner of work upon the la Lord's day; but you ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2417 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... body of a boy named James Mort, the son of Thomas Mort, farmer, Parr. It appeared that the poor little fellow went out blackberrying in the fields near to his father's house between three and four in the afternoon, and -when next seen he was floating ...

Published: Tuesday 23 August 1864
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2871 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Miscellaneous

... custody, came to light in Nottingham on Saturday evening, About four o'clock that afternoon, two boys who were gathering blackberries on Mapperley Hill, discovered In a field near Wood Lane the dead body of a child quite warm. A police officer was sent ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1864
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6856 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE NATIONAL REFORM UNION

... tOray., Since the establishment of railways they had seen nobles, and honourables, and right honour. nbles as thick as blackberries amongst them, coming down to open Mechanics' Institutions and other such societies; and, unfortunately, a great number ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1864
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2673 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Miscellaneous

... 12s. for trespassin in a wood belonging to the Misses Starkey, n of Batten Bland taking therefrom, onthe 4th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of theovalue of 6d., or there. I shouts. The gamaekeeper stated he had cautioned the t, defendant more ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1864
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8746 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Miscellaneous

... over in February. We have for weeks been living on lean cucumabers, green peas, new potatoes, summer squashes, one and our blackberries being just gone, we are finishing up AtoL the last of the currants, raspberries, plums, &c., while we tOn' are waiting ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1865
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8730 | Page: 6 | Tags: News