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WIT AND HUMOUR

... this spoon was dirty. Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit was smrripe, one said it was ?? to call them blackberries when they were red. Don't you know, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are ?? World of Wit ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1871
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

WITNEY. BIRTH,-Oct

... adjacent fields and hedges, but all eff~orts to discover the missing property failed. A few days since a lad was gathering blackberries from a hedge running along the road to New.Yatt, when he spied Something Shining, and called his father to see. The latter ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1875
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2094 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

ARRETON

... ARRETON. The Dairyman's Daughter—A correspondent of the Daily News writes : —ln the little valley of Arreton the blackberry bushes, sheltered from the hard and grey weather, are boldly putting forth tender green leaves, and here and there lusty elderberry ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1875
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EPPING FOREST

... school children. Many schools go by rail. The boys, too, trudge down _ by roa( for a summer day in the Forest, or ) autumn blackberrying. There are lads and lassies by the a thousand of course, and grave fathers and mothers with s their children. They are ...

Published: Friday 17 March 1871
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 955 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE HARVEST IN TrHE

... seven years of age, on the 7th September at Haltwhlstle. The case for the complainant was that the girl had been pulling blackberries at the side of a burn on the property of defendant's father Defendant saw her and shouted, whereupon the girl crossed to ...

Published: Friday 27 September 1878
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2018 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

VARIETIES

... asurgeon ?-Beeause they both mew-til-late. An Irishmar was once asked if he had ever seen a red blackberry. ' To be sure I have, said Pat- all blackberries ate red ahen they are green! At a late conference 'session, a clergyman gave a reason why the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1874
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1022 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT DEBBY

... -were found yE F to thle woman anod children were seen walking along the G I to canal bank. The children were gathering blackberries Of ,by- at the time, and the men heard the woman talking to her h( ?? children. Later on the three sat down on the towing ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1877
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1747 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE SCULPTOR'S MODEL

... the letter of Offended Father? As regards the model being no Venus, it is well known that they are not as plentiful as blackberries. consequently an artist must get as good a one as he can for his subject out of a very limited circle. An offended father's ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1878
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 521 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

The Garden

... undulates into heathery waves, broken by clumps of gorse on rocky mounds, sheltered by prickly hawthorn or trailing sprays of blackberry; where undulating meadows, cleft into many a sheltered hollow, roll gracefully saway as far as the eye can reach; where ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

AUTUMNAL MIGRATION OF BIRDS

... There last are very fond of the beech mast. Bullfinches are very scarce this flight, principally owing to the blight in the blackberry time Tbere has never been known such a scarmiry of tbere berries these 30 years. Siekins have Lot yet arrived, but this ...

Published: Tuesday 20 November 1877
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 635 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... was unripe, one said it was ridiculons to call them black. berrieswhentbeywerered. Don'tyouknow, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green V SusPIcIous.-A rustic drank his first glass of sodawater very solemnly, and then eyeing ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1873
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WIT AND HUMOUR

... When a certain litio negro boy wanted to attend his father's funeial. be asked the schoolmaster for a holiday to go a black-berrying. SeUC is FA11t. -1r'h we-1-known verses from Ten- nyson's In - esajoriam, beginning Ring out, wild bells, have bhen ...

Published: Friday 07 April 1871
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 590 | Page: 3 | Tags: News