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... thurrowly mar rid, and intend to retnane so/ Dinner at Long Branch 4iz served at o'clock ; opens with soup, and shots up with ; blackberries.' The amusements are crabbing and bathing. Of the first Mr. Killings observes: Yes- • went out krahbing, and ketchcd peck ...

Published: Friday 22 January 1869
Newspaper: Coventry Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1007 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

London, Thursday night. The few people left in town during the recess have been, as far as we can gather,

... g on coming events.” We do not mean to say they have been in any way eupporting the betting houses, which are thick as blackberries in the metropolis, but which seem destined, under the firm regime of Colonel Henderson, to follow the prize ring, and become ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1869
Newspaper: Aris's Birmingham Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
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DOMINION OF CANADA

... affords a good covert for the birds, and where fire has swept through, there is generally a thick patch of either raspberry or blackberry bushes, which seem to have a fondness for burnt districts, affording abundance of food. It must be borne in mind by English ...

Published: Monday 04 October 1869
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1768 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Epitome of Foreign and Domestic News

... brothere, named James, aged two and four years respectively, whose parents live at Kingswell, went out on Sunday on a blackberrying expedition. They remained out until night came on, and in making their way home they mistook their road and fell into a ...

Published: Friday 08 October 1869
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF ART

... may give an illustration of this remark. There is among the chalk-shaded drawings a marvel of painstaking skill-a study of blackberry leaves-by a student about fifteen yearsof age: time occu- pied in its production, sixteen months of the school attend- ance ...

SPORTING NOTES,

... that is the want of better staying aged animals from five upwards—fours with light weights in handicaps are plentiful as blackberries, but we do not find more than five above four years that have won the Chester Cup since the days of Coranna and St. Lawrence ...

Published: Monday 11 January 1869
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2086 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DISTRICT NEWS

... Croctises are in bloom in this neigsbourbood, and violets (not grown in thc open, however) are nearly 'as plentiful as blackberries. Last night the members of the VolunteerArtillery Corps supped together at the Crown Hotel. There was a large gathering ...

Published: Tuesday 12 January 1869
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2040 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

WILD FRUITS

... 510e High on the mountain the bilberry springeth, Cranberries cieep ’mid the moss of the moor, Over the hill-crag the blackberry saingeth, Down in the valley it scatters its store. Beautiful wild fruits ! when ling’ring affection Seeks the memorials ...

Published: Friday 23 July 1869
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. TO CORRESPONDENTS. pr Fain Pray.—You have been mi-intormed The Clerk to en the Local ..

... distance. Then, in the next Le place, some reverend gentleman will have to be found (and look, they ure as “plentiful as blackberries), who is willing to undertake the advocacy of the new speculation, on the understanding that, if, he stands first for | ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1869
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2495 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... the children to quiet pools, where they fished for sticlxlebat ; or into green dells, where dog-roses, wild thyme, and blackberries might be found in their season. Mrs. Hope often accompanied her children in their rambles; and, sitting with her book or ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1869
Newspaper: Illustrated Midland News
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2301 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THEATRE ROYAL

... Ruffian, Boldero Bludgeon hithard. The First Ruffian then decamps, leaving the babes” to amuse themselves by gathering blackberries. Scene 8 finds Brilliantina in the wood, in search of Robin Bood. Having succeeded, she informs Robin of the cruelty of ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1869
Newspaper: Aris's Birmingham Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2820 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS

... d-bridge. From shops in Westbourne-grove and Queen's-road—some whips, sweetotuff, pears, a fiddle-bow, two books, some blackberries, a box of figs, a bunch of raisins, and a box of dominoes. Broke open a glass case in Westbourne-grove to steal knives ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1869
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2851 | Page: 7 | Tags: none