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A GRIM HOUSE

... unjust to him, but then it was in the old days of House of Commons led by a flippant leader, vhen jokes were as plenty as blackberries, and the First Ministerof the Crown regarded the first question >f the day chiefly as a joke. But now wo have got an ■arnest ...

C APE TOWN

... Sponspec has almost the same flavour as a pine-apple, and is nearly the same size os a water-melon. Bananas, mulberries, and blackberries, abundance, the same as they are in England. All kinds vegetables the same as at home, so I have heard papa say. forgot ...

Published: Wednesday 20 April 1870
Newspaper: The Cornish Telegraph
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 3524 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CORNISH NOTES AND OPINIONS

... Tincroft, Cook's Kitchen, and adjacent mines. Gold washing on the banks of the Sacramento, where cradles are plentiful blackberries in autumn, and vigorously rocked by host of savage-looking feUows from every atation under the sun, may very interesting ...

THE FALMOUTH & PENRYN WEEKLY TIMES

... roam I over the pastures in search of them. All along the I edges of the grew luxuriantly, the large, luscious, creeping blackberry, free for all to pluck who I chose; the paetures abounded with thick chimps ' of huckleberry bushes; the swamps, with ...

PASSING EVENTS -——•

... security and honesty. But it is one thing to resolve to insure; it is another to select a company. Agents are as plentiful as blackberries in the autumn, and companies, ranging from tho most reliable the most dishonest, flourish on all sides. To insure in one ...

TAXATION

... exceed our own, and the mangold-wurtzel di I not approach onrs in strength of plant. The May thorn was as ours, while the blackberry was already in flower. The gold cup reminds one of home, but the lomraon daisy is somewhat inferior to ours. The wild rose ...

Published: Wednesday 27 July 1870
Newspaper: The Cornish Telegraph
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 6017 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHITBY, AND ITS VISITORS

... gaiters are continually met with ou the cliff and on tho sands, while the inferior orders of clergy swarm plentiful as blackberries Sussex hedges. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 August 1870
Newspaper: The Cornish Telegraph
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

St. Columb Cottage Garden Society

... not for competition. The cottagers exhibited but little fruit— 23 dishes apples and one plums. There were ten dishes fine blackberries shown, which were gathered by cottager's daughters undertheageof lo years. The fruit of all-comers was rather more abundant ...

CO R N MAUK i: T

... Williams Marigolds (African,) Ist. Jane White:—Venosa striati (extra,) begonia (extra) ; fuohias (extra.) Elizabeth J. Rowe : —Blackberries (extra.) The judges for the cottagers were Messrs. Mitchinson, of Trur**; Fox, of Ro-ie Vale Nursery, Penzance; and Rendlc ...

Published: Wednesday 31 August 1870
Newspaper: The Cornish Telegraph
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1187 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Local Intelligence

... her parents on the road from Liskeard to Bodmin. It appears that when coming along the road the little girl saw some fine blackberries growing on the hedge, and wishing to have them the horse was stopped, and she stood on the seat the trap that she might ...

ATTENDANCE UPON THE WOUNDED

... her parents on the road from Liskeard Bodmiu. It appears that whoa coming along the road the little girl saw some fine blackberries gloving on the hedge, and wishing to have them the horse stopped, and she stood on the seat of the trap that plight reach ...

Published: Wednesday 07 September 1870
Newspaper: The Cornish Telegraph
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1460 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Kidneys, 70s to 12l>s

... clothes, and a wide-awake hat. At Puddletown, which is five miles from Dorchester, Beaumont was arrested whilst picking blackberries. He was attired at the time in the clothes ho had stolen from the hotel, and wore a surplice, which lie had taken from ...