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On Saturday two privates named Scuitb and Branstone, of the 85th Regiment, embarked from Southse* beach 6(rall ..

... walker's quest. another occasion eluded the vigilance of his parents about midnight, and went a long distance in search of blackberry bushes. His parents, who now reside Rossendale, afterwards came to live in Bury, and there one occasion the somnambulistic ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1876
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1530 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE IRISH GUIDE'S STORY

... you am the little mark, like gooee-tracks? Thome are witches' footsteps. The witches and the fairies were plenty here as blackberries, and I know a man who hod friends amongst them once. Ilia name in Tom Nolen, abd today he liree a rich man in America; ...

Published: Friday 24 November 1876
Newspaper: North Devon Advertiser
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1384 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IDLE DAYS AT ILFRACOMBE

... better than most of the strollers, and secures more attentive listeners than many preachers. Stage coaches are plentiful blackberries in Combe, nurdi have a better ear for music than the polite attendant of the Great Railway coach, whose praise is in the ...

Published: Thursday 09 September 1875
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1896 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE CHANGE OF FRONT AT THE CAPE

... year will beat least 20 per cent, heavier. Strawberries are the largest proportion of the small fruits. The others are blackberries and raspberries. The season promises to be late regards strawberries, but not so with peaches in the southern end of the ...

Published: Thursday 05 June 1879
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1887 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE QUEEN IN THE HIGHLANDS

... defended. Monday, 29th September, a woman named Mary Ann Snelgrove wis out in lane uear the prisoner's bouse gathering blackberries, and saw the prisoner, with whom she conversed the weather and other topics, in the course o£ which the prisoner made use ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1873
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1819 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... advenlhuo-rriv-; be takes a stroll ; the modest heath. beil and the violet turn up up their dark blue eyes to him; and he finds blackberries enough (as Fal Ms-didl'n-!‘:-mhdn. Dinner served up, and t 0 his mind, he warms and waxes cosy, jokes mtht.hnh',rl.h‘nn*iq ...

Published: Friday 13 July 1877
Newspaper: North Devon Advertiser
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1388 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OUR ARCHAEOLOGICAL CORNER

... roast crabs by the fire, whereof this parish yields none —the climate is too cold—only the dainty fruits of wortles and blackberries. - Old Westoote was living some 25 miles to the south, at West Raddon, Shobrooke parish, when he penned ' these tales ...

Published: Thursday 02 October 1879
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1990 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCRAPS

... roast crabs by ye fire, whereof this parish yields none, ye climate is too cold, only ye fine dainty fruits of worttes and blackberries. So much for poor old .Westcote and his much ado about nothing. But how easy to carry our thougbts back to those two hundred ...

Published: Thursday 09 May 1872
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1874 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ILFRACOMBE

... or the Season.—As an instance the mildness of the season, may state that last week some wild strawberries and a buncb of blackberries were gathered in the lanes on the ontskiits of the town, and in several places primroses are in bloom. are also informed ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1878
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2203 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

STRANGE CLAIMANT; Or, TWICE WED, OHAPTER – V

... seemed, to “’Mm‘llt'ifindmfin.hm-u. glowed with biosoms of & thousand hues snd varied “D—:*“'\Hl‘,hmrbq. suckle ; lfit'hr{. blackberry, and milky wood m;hm:h'ammmhfil’:: primroee ; waxen ivy draped trunks o tumachs which hung sideways over the torrent, a: ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1878
Newspaper: North Devon Advertiser
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3321 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... | widow residing at 60, Robert-street, Plumstead, was taken ili about tw: nty-four hours after eating a quan- ! tity of blackberries, gathered by himeelf, and mlyl unripe. A medical man was called, but an obstruction of the system had been created which ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1877
Newspaper: North Devon Advertiser
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3460 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AN AGED TEMPERANCE WESLEYAN MISSIONARY

... per lb.; cabbages, Id. each, or 'Ju. per dozen; cucumbers, Id. to l£d.; turnips, 2to for Id.; carrots, Id. per bundle; blackberries, 2d. per quart: grapes, per lb.; tomatoes, 4d. per dozen: pears, 2s. apP honey, la. per lb.; English bacon, sd. 9d. per ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1878
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2252 | Page: 3 | Tags: none