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... for ten harvest hands, did a two weeks' washing and the milking, made a calico dress, practised her music lesson, went blackberrying, gathered a gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concert, and walked home again before bedtime In one of the ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1875
Newspaper: Tavistock Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 881 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DANGERS AND DUTIES OF OUR DAY

... dementing. The latter replied that he didn't know—(renewed laughter). He (the lecturer) supposed it must have meant blackberrying—(continued laughter). The lecturer then entered into the origin and meauing of the words, Catholic and Protestant ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1874
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1076 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DISTRICT NEWS

... charged him with poaching, which he denied, and said he was picking blackberries.—Mr. Trehane, for tlm defence, called two young men, who stated that Mr. Tczer was only picking blackberries. —The defendant was convicted, aud fined 205., including costs ...

SOUTHMOLTON

... over with thorns. Being tired he soon fell asleep, and what time he awoke he couldn't tell. Being hungry, he began to pick blackberries and eat them, and on nearing Northmolton, about three o'clock the next day, he ran all down over the hill to that place ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1878
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 991 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

YOL XIII— NO 3447 EXETER MONDAY AUGliST1 1877 PRICE ONE THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL that in Birmingham aB well Exotor ..

... Cornfield Blackberry all creditable named represents is shallow stream down lane and conple of in in crossed recess caused by rhanging in background ia capitally Diagle’s would if were qnite so prononnoed Nature repasts precisely same oolonr Blackberry is marked ...

Published: Monday 27 August 1877
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2283 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BABBICOMBE BAY

... down a wild coppice of bushes and briars to the scene. This is the children's playground, the fcappy hunting-fields (for blackberries) of the infants of St. Mary Church. There is no seclusion, summer-house, selfishness here. and down the narrow bramble ...

Published: Tuesday 02 September 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1059 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HHi 1)0WAI COUNTY COURT. TBr’toUi)- —Before Mr. S«rj». Petendoril. FO* KONST LPNT, Joh» Biffen V. Ferris ..

... stated that he saw the plaintiff's leg, and when the defendant came up said the dog had gut pup. and tho children coming blackberrying that «av. teased her and made her snucy. Otis we.o applied, ana after drinking some cider they walked the fond. Plaintiff ...

(T be contimued.) A LEGEND OF SAXONY

... the house, '.bbq-w-tuniw the forest and brought home firewood ; and during summer and sutumn they gathered whimberries, 'blackberries, and cranberries, which they sold in the town, snd did odd jobs for the farmers, and so helped their father to provide ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1877
Newspaper: North Devon Advertiser
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 892 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NORTH NORFOLK. To the Editor Tlu. Daily Western Time*. Sir, -It was very important to the Government to carry the

... fraternity, it is too well known that there are many of them still left, and that good useful nurses are not plentiful as blackberries, but nearly as scarce as figs on thistles. To a meeting in London, his Grace the Duke of Westminster in the chair, last ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1879
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1189 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE TRANSIT OP VENUS

... so ranch tbst ran away. Ho wandered along the fields and lived oonld, and was at length caught by tho police gathering blackberries and potatoes. The Bench sympathised with the lad, and tho waa adjourned in order that Messrs. Hanger might be communicated ...

Published: Tuesday 15 September 1874
Newspaper: Western Daily Mercury
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1028 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... must have been assiduously explored for the materials of the two exquisitely-wrought wreaths that encircle the pulpit: blackberries, winter cherries, hips and haws, dry grasses and foliage of every variety of warm autumn tints are combined with artistic ...

Published: Monday 30 September 1872
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1154 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

VARIETIES

... houses with sheet-lead. Perhaps it was the same man who saw a white blackbird sitting on a wooden noile-sloto eating a red blackberry. A German pedlar was asked if it Woe not very heavy work corrying a big pack shout day after day. Oh, yes, he replied ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1873
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 6 | Tags: News