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THE RULE OF HIGH MILITARY PROMOTION

... some distinguished mark of favour. There are things too common with us for honour and reward. Brave men are as abundant as blackberries, and duty is an absolute drug, it therefore becomes necessary to select objects of favour clear of these vulgar claims ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1860
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2034 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE & GARDENING

... ; or a few trees may be set comiipactly fifteen feet apart, and the space they would shade be used for raspberries and blackberries. There is the lane, too, lead- ing to the pasture, which might well have a row of apple or pear trees upon each side, *hich ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1860
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1645 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... as it may, they leave the bushes very naked wherever they visit. Cures, or methods of preventure, are as plentiful as blackberries, but, unfortunately, such cures are liable to fail. Alum, lime, hellebore, broom, and elder have all been praised as perfect ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3406 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

RAMBLES BY THE RIBBLE

... hur~sbed in random luxuriance, and which Was -also fre- Oth ud quont in the neighbouring hedges. The bramible, or 6th Ite blackberry family (Rusbus), bad also several representa- ver tives: Te wood straberry (FIragaria ve.5ca) was abtin- 8utt ld dant. It ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3126 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Borrowed Cristies

... *and headed it, A wretched attempt at wit. A New Orleans papcr of last January boasted gold was as pentiful there as blackberries. The editor forgot to tenl how abandsut bhlacehberies are in Nowv Orleans in midwinter. IsIMPARTIAI.11Y.- This is a vcry ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... clover), Trifeli un officinale (melilot), Mentha v iridis.(spear mint), Ballota nigra (black hore- hound), ftiuesfruticosaa (blackberry), Rlubsidseus (rasp. berry), Ioeria amirar (common candytuft), Ulex Europa us (common furze), Plzantago ladceelata' (ribwort ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6493 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... them that ?? fears were groundless A sad accident occurred at St. Helens on Sunday even- ing. Some children were picking blackberries on a breok side, when the basket of one little girl, named Whittle, fell into the water. The child was trying was trying ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5819 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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 

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 

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