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ONCE upon a time it would have been an act of daring profanity , in tlus part of the island

... Winchester , and shook in their shoes . Happily or unhappily , that time has passed away . A Bishop is no longer a rarity . The blackberry , not • the black swan , is now the appropriate similitude , tlie Episcopal dignitary liaving become , comparatively , as ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1878
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1743 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Is the world sufficientl y aware of the alarming rate at which romance is dying out of it 1 The

... water-kelpies ; in the woods , elves or dryads , just as tjie soil happened to be Greek or Gothic , were found as thick as blackberries , and the caverns of the earth , after Vulcan and his myrmidons had been put to flight , were filled with trolls and other ...

Published: Friday 22 September 1876
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1910 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ICE AND THE TYPHOID OUTBREAK

... H. Pritchard, • coloured boy, 17 years old, committed an assault upon • young German girl, who had gone out to gather blackberries in Baltimore county, about six miles from the city , and ravished her in a most brutal manner. Both were arrested and committed ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1873
Newspaper: North Briton
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1217 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A NEW ItMIA AY SIGNAL

... bailiffs left the house. She was seen walk. in: on the towing path of the canal with her children, one of whom gathered blackberries, and she was heard talking by a railway piintsman. An hour afterwards tho bodies of the three were found drum - lied in ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1877
Newspaper: North Briton
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1181 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

' ElJGfa- ~ SciCroE

... bailiffs she left the house . She was seen walking on the towing path of the canal with her childrenone of whom gathered blackberries . An hour afterwards the hollies of the three were found drowned in the canal by a man wlio was 6 shinR , STOPPAGE or AT ...

Published: Tuesday 02 October 1877
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5143 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHOEVER wishes to catch a last glimpse of the fading African Mystery had better pack his portmanteau without ..

... places smooth and the crooked places straight , sprinkled the supposed uninhabitable downs with inhabitants as thick as blackberries , and hunted the Unknoffn into a corner . Best of all , they have made a beginning of the end . with the Slavetrade , the ...

Published: Monday 04 June 1877
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2436 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE NORTE BRITISH AGRIOULTURIS2

... Cows of any age-1, The Earl of Fife, ' lnure 2, Sir Geo. Macpherson Grant, Eva ; 3, Wiz. M'Combie of Easter Skeue, Blackberry; 4, the Earl of Fife, Patce of Corskis ; very h.-c., the Earl of Fife, Viol e t o f alontbletton ; h.-a, the Earl of ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1876
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1112 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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... polled cattle , the Easter Skene a ^ Tn ^ of themselves forniin ^ a good display . The first prize cow is Mr M'Comtde's . Blackberry , that was tinrd at Aberdeen last weefc and fast as a two-y ^ ar-old heifer at GLisgro hit year ; -while the iirst priza ...

Published: Friday 04 August 1876
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1819 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... 1 ' h ' !^ P 0 ' 11 ® • hen puss esCTped ; Atltntfo • :-- • : . i lirtS ^ Sy - ' r ra ° 'd flTOy B 11 ^ WOs from Blackberry , wlio • ' : ' UD P . ^^' - J ' 1 ™ mi J . J . r . h « darare bu ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1877
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2803 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MAR AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION SHOW

... of the horses was fair. Mr M'Combie, Easter Skin., carried off e ± grsat many of the prises in the polled stook. His cow Blackberry, which was third at Aberdeen, and first se a two-year-old at Glasgow last year took the first honour here; while his two-year-o ...

Published: Wednesday 09 August 1876
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1153 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE SHAKSPEARE FESTIVAL

... day turquoise sky and an emerald earth, when the hedges, now bare and grey, were fragant wish honeysuckle and purple with blackberries, to' consumption of which I devoted two hours by dial, for the'sole reason,of course, that ears must often have done so ...

Published: Monday 28 April 1879
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1535 | Page: 2 | Tags: none