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... 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 

DARTMOUTH ROYAL REGATTA

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

Published: Monday 01 September 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2234 | Page: 4 | 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

TORRINGTON

... up the road from New Mills towards the town, saw some small boys and girls on the sloping bank near the river, pickiog blackberries. Just after passing opposite the spot he heard the girls screaming loudly, and fearing that something was amisi, the constable ...

Published: Thursday 04 September 1873
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1567 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DISTRICT NEWS

... turnips and mangold are growing very fast. Apples trees are burdened with fruit, even the hedges are teeming with nuts and blackberries, and mushrooms have sprung up most remarkably during the wet weather; grass i* growing very fast, so that there is no lack ...

Published: Friday 05 September 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5262 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MONETARY NEWS

... Is. to Le. stone; cabbages, 1d; each; kidney beans, lid. per ; 6d, to 84, per buudred : apples, 8d. to Ie. 64. per bar blackberries, 9d. perfquart : turuipe, 1d, per baadie onions, 14. per buuch ; carrots, 1d.*per bunch ; cucumbers, 14. to 34, exch hatter ...

Published: Monday 08 September 1873
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1720 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AUCTION ANNOUNCED IN TO-DAY'S WESTERN TIMES

... says :— The boys are busy in the woods, , Gathering the ripe nuts, bright In shady lanes the children stray Looking for blackberries through to Those berries such old • And this is now the autumn, sobered , t f(i'i umbrella. This has been an unsettle* ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 934 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LOCAL NEWS

... Tho boys are busy in the woods, Gathering the ripe r.uts, bright and brown, In shady lanes the children stray Looking for blackberries through the day, Those berries of such old renown ! And this now the autumn, sobered the too frequent umbrella. This has ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1671 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE PECULIAR PEOPLE AGAIN

... H. Pritchard, a coloured boy, 17 years old, committed an &assault rola a young G)ratan girl, who had gone out to gather blackberries in Baltimore oounty, about six miles from the city, and treated her in the most bratal manner. Both were arrested and committed ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1873
Newspaper: Exmouth Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 902 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MARKETS

... cabbages ojd to ld each, Fronch beans ed per peck. Fruit- Apples 7d to Is per peck, pears te C for ld, plums 4d, damsons 3d, blackberries ld per quart, Sundries—Bread 7id per 4lb. loaf, cheese (raw milk) 9d, ditto (skim milk) 4sd per lb. The attendance was ...

Published: Tuesday 16 September 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1540 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1873. SUMMARY OF TO-DAY’S NEWS

... Carlyon, coroner, on the body of a child found in a shaft at Creegbrawee, The evidence ehewed that some children picking blackberries had observed the body in the shaft about seven or eight feet from the surface. A verdict of Found dead” was returned, There ...

Published: Tuesday 16 September 1873
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 10339 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... d the of their houses with sheet lead Perhaps it the man who saw white blackbird sitting on wooden milestone eatiDg red blackberry Hobson’s Choice room York Sterne her name He told she Mrs Hobson on which he he heard Hobson’s choice he never it before ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1873
Newspaper: North Devon Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 6157 | Page: 3 | Tags: none