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THE SCOTCH ECCLESIASTICAL ORGAN-GRINDER

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

Published: Saturday 21 September 1878
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 895 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BRECHIN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

... varieties were represented. Apples and pears were especially good considering the season. Currant:-, both red and white, blackberries, and strawbesries were not so largely represented as usual, but what was shown w;is good—more particularly so the gooseberries ...

Published: Tuesday 27 August 1878
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 705 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MRS GIRLING AND THE SHAKERS

... windproof, and the manner of living must be far from healthy. But the food, if rude, appears abundant—large hunks of bread, blackberries stewed with marrow, and something iv a large cauldron, which, as we looked,on, wizened old man was stirring. In and round ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 1878
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 913 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

??? REFLECTIONS ON COUNTRY LIFE

... IvC » ■ w hole of Perthshire, I *f the Lothians, I 1 the dev n tation I V Pr , J-he later crop of rasps I M y the pest. Blackberries I WV&C o v . and I saw one splendid I M e d for competxtion in I Hot cleaned of !l^ Siv of the berries. One I sbt fellow ...

Published: Tuesday 27 August 1878
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 843 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FINE ART EXHIBITION

... 620, A Fatal Shot, by Miss Emma Walters, £4 4s; *No. 219, Azaleas, by Sydney Holland, £5 ss; No. 800, Gathering Blackberries, by Miss E. Lewis, £3; No. 628, The Canongate, Tolbooth, Moray House (where Treaty with England was arranged), and Tron ...

Published: Tuesday 09 October 1877
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 880 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

JOB'S REFLECTIONS ON CURRENT TOPICS

... honoured me with their kind inquiries since the announcement of my indisposition, and also acknowledge receipt of two cans of blackberry jelly, a recipe for cough mixture, an unreceipted account for a quarter's gas, and invitation to attend juryman at the Circuit ...

Published: Tuesday 02 October 1877
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 940 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A LETTER TO THE LADIES. [Bt a Ladt CoßßEaroswarr.] AN IRISH DRIVER. The drives round about Dolgelly are ..

... honeysuckle still scenting the hedges. I have gathered several wild roses, whilst the overhanging bushes are full nuts, and blackberries are getting ripe. The distinction of seasons seems utterly merged in this year’s erratic weather. Whilst thoroughly enjoying ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1879
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1030 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR RUSKINS APHORISMS ON DRAWING

... clearly, you are singer. You may then choose what you will paint, or what you will sing. VIL—A pea is green, cherry red, and blackberry black, all round. ,^ VIII. —Every fight is a shade, compared to higher lights, till you come to the sua ; and every shade ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1877
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1039 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE YELLOW FIN

... suffering from concussion of t'*ie brain, died on Wednesday. She has been identified as Mary M'Oarty, au outworker, residing at Blackberry Hill, Whitburn, Linlithgow. The London Gazette contains a War Office notice of the transfer of General Lord Ivokeby from ...

Published: Friday 28 May 1875
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1095 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOTES FROM FIFE

... back-door, and the condition the road, past, present, and future, were as plentifully sprinkled up and down the folios as blackberries a bush. This was weary work, and the Sheriff repeatedly protested, urging the parties to settle the matter, and reminding ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1877
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1183 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Virginia once more comes to the front with the word of Lord Cornwallis, exhumed near Richmond this time. This only

... tomatoes, mushrooms, egg-plant, and scores of other vegetables are cultivated and thrive well. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, whortleberries, currants, and other berries flptfrisb, There is scarcely a day in the year when strawberries ...

Published: Monday 13 December 1875
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1016 | Page: 4 | Tags: none