VARIETIES

... asurgeon ?-Beeause they both mew-til-late. An Irishmar was once asked if he had ever seen a red blackberry. ' To be sure I have, said Pat- all blackberries ate red ahen they are green! At a late conference 'session, a clergyman gave a reason why the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 April 1874
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1022 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT DEBBY

... -were found yE F to thle woman anod children were seen walking along the G I to canal bank. The children were gathering blackberries Of ,by- at the time, and the men heard the woman talking to her h( ?? children. Later on the three sat down on the towing ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1877
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1747 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE SCULPTOR'S MODEL

... the letter of Offended Father? As regards the model being no Venus, it is well known that they are not as plentiful as blackberries. consequently an artist must get as good a one as he can for his subject out of a very limited circle. An offended father's ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1878
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 521 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... called by a friend of hit from the NErth to the luxurious habits of the Danbury folks. They did not gather and pre. serve blackberries as they did in the North. Not one of the parishioners made any przvialon in thia way. They entirely despised the use of ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1878
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1215 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... rabbits, digging vertically into the burrow just where the nest is. They are very fond of acorns, nuts, &c., and will pick blackberries off the' brambles. When out for food they hunt with their snout on the ground like' tne pig; their sense of smell does ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1877
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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 

AUTUMNAL MIGRATION OF BIRDS

... There last are very fond of the beech mast. Bullfinches are very scarce this flight, principally owing to the blight in the blackberry time Tbere has never been known such a scarmiry of tbere berries these 30 years. Siekins have Lot yet arrived, but this ...

Published: Tuesday 20 November 1877
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 635 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

PONTYPOOL. !

... yards of him at the time. He went and asked him why he laid snares to kill game. Defendant answered— Can't a fellow pick a blackberry without being questioned by keepers ? Wit- ness was certain that defendant was the man that came to the snare, and to whom ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1874
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... altogether will commence the will se- aiispices, and those who are expeit ™e\0 £ e countries, e food bags. Hares, in most c blackberries. plentiful, and rabbits are as thicK as farmers raise the old cry of hemg ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1871
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 533 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... was unripe, one said it was ridiculons to call them black. berrieswhentbeywerered. Don'tyouknow, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green V SusPIcIous.-A rustic drank his first glass of sodawater very solemnly, and then eyeing ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1873
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 560 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

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