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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 

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... lift from tho bull there. ' is delightful to range the woods when they chauge, AtiLd the nuts get ripur and riper, And blackberries sweet invito you to eat, -If you don't get a bite from a viper. It's clarming to float with tho tide, in your boat, When ...

31ARVELLOUS ESCAPE

... is now exceedingly rich in autumnal wild flowers®and berries, and on tbe little girl pointing to a tempting cluster of blackberries the nurse tried to reach them and fell over the cliff. Fortunately her fall was brokea by an elder trea, where she was ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1871
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TURF NOTES AND GOSSIP

... the most astute speculator in London to secure many 1,000 to 10 chances which a few years back were almost as numerous as blackberries on a bush. Nevertheless, if the wish for wagering upon the Spring Handicaps has diminished or departed from its former ...

Published: Friday 14 January 1870
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 342 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Literary Extracts

... by Sterne, by Walter Scott, by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown, and by many other British writers of recog- nised position. Blackberry, as to which Air Bartlett says that this term is universally used in the United States for the English brambleberry, has ...

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... the About four Mr Bankes’s Pearl King, 5 yrs. ‘Lee's Marmion (b b), aged. Mr Mr Logan's Mr Bracher’s Victoire, 4 yrs. 's Blackberry, Mr Bracher's Mr Mansfield’s by Nonsense (hb), Mr Mason‘s Mr Newman's Qn of Ree ry aac Mr Sir C. Nagent’s Acropolis, 6 yrs ...

Published: Thursday 20 March 1873
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 388 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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 

1-ATIKNCE DOW

... Showed some one had been Passing through; And, following the track, it Across a field of Summer grain, Out where the thorny blackberries shed ‘Their blossoms in the narrow lane, Down which the cattle went to drink In Summer, from the river's brink. “ The river ...

Published: Saturday 14 March 1874
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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 

rtir.N.AINGA

... et. 'whole and POMO, I t •o !het se an; heard of blade the IlousahoLl as U.• sae. 101 l the pun is U now. wen 11l as blackberries wr Issas hers ; Wll Is wss I , i aro. lisaishod loom Ow hislier in days is All L'MEVt:vrt 1611 February 1, • fur the im•ber ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 510 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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 

THE LOOKER-ON IN LONDON.-No. XXI

... Englishmen is very unsavoury just now in the French nostrils. Even in Paris, where our countrymen have been as plentiful as blackberries-in those particular quarters of the city, that is say, which they affect-the dislike of the lower classes to us has at ...