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FEMALE CONVICT PRISONS

... assuming a wild river-like appearance. I should like to turn out a national school to pasture on the never-ending succession of blackberry bushes. I returned by the pleasant high road, with its green margin wider than the road itself, and bordering on sonie of ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1878
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1872 | Page: 17 | Tags: News 

TO CORRESPONDENTS

... trioe kind, and the latter the English Cranberry, os a variety ovith smniler leaves. J'hey were all at one time callie blackberries,' hence the origin of the latter name which yous refer to. CTCLAMIL:KS.-X. Y. P.-So soon ns theyhave donebloom- iug remove ...

Published: Sunday 05 March 1876
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1251 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

ROMANCE OF LOVE AND ROBBERY

... first seen af tsr the murder at Bir~ ing Ls last Tuesday. He was seen to come out from a wood by some children who were blackberry- lua and gleaningS He picked up some ears of corn o e, but vwhen he saw them he ran again into the wood. He was next seen ...

Published: Sunday 31 August 1873
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1487 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

POACHING AS A PROFESSION

... Philologists may trace a resemblance between the present provincial word mouching and Shakspeare's m itcher, who ate blackberries. Of the three probably the largest amount of business is done by the local men, on the principle that the sitting gamester ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1877
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1572 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

VILLAGE HISTORY

... of nicknames, Christian names admitting of but a limited choice in the country, and Jacks and Dicks abounding like the blackberries. Hence a system of prefixes obtains, as it used to do in the Borders with such a name as Armstrong, its possessors having ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1876
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1913 | Page: 15 | Tags: News 

FRENCH NEWS

... seat of the fractional part of the Government which exercises the executive power outside of Paris. Reasons, plentiful as blackberries, X are given by the M oniteur why Tours should be the w place. Geographically, Tours occupies a position B sufficiently ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1870
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1789 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME

... affording a valuable food for pigs. Others seek elderberries to sell for making wine, and for a few weeks a trade is done in blackberries. Chair-menders and basket-makers frequent the shore of the little mere or lake looking for bulrushes and flags: the old ...

Published: Friday 08 February 1878
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1818 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

BIRD MIGRATIONS IN SEPTEMBER

... redwing, woodlark, oig thrush, blackbird, s9ow bunting, bramble inch, siskin, tvite, andredpoles, &e. The night- Ahbde and blackberries are very plentiful this year, and billfinehes are feeding upon them inthe lanes and hedges. Kingfishers are very abundant ...

Published: Tuesday 24 September 1878
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1800 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OLD TIMES AND OLD ACTORS

... that is the truth-at least, our dinner was off a turnip-field, by the road-side; and we partook of a splendid dessert of blackberries, plucked from the hedges as we preceded on our way. Oh, leave it to me, and trust to Providence for the rest ! So, here ...

Published: Sunday 23 January 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1795 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

HAMPSTEAD SMALLPOX HOSPITAL

... the ground was fenced round. There 8Vas one time that the foundation, or' a part, -gave -Way, and a few boys went out blackberrying; but it - Was immediately stopped up. The clothes of 'Eliza- - beth Bellue had disapperead, but witness cauld not -s'ccount ...

Published: Sunday 12 November 1871
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1735 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... going to begin now. With a slight change in Falstaff's words they would each and all say, If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would receive no reason upon compulsion, I. It is of no use, therefore, to argue with the Asylums Board. If the garden ...

Published: Friday 12 March 1875
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2039 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MR. TREVELYAN, M.P., AND MR. MUNDELLA, M.P., AT SHEFFIELD

... we did not know whether to pity their poverty or to ednm;:a their retioencs. (Cheers ) Reasons might be aa plentiful as blackberries, bat, like Falstaff, they would not give them. It wa3 nct fair to take aS representatives of their ptrty those blatant ...

Published: Sunday 16 November 1873
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2027 | Page: 3 | Tags: News