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LIFE IN THE BACKWOODS OF CANADA

... loaded with berries and wild fruit—ph o ne and ebonies. The rasps are thick in July. also strawl-erriem, gooseberries, blackberries, cranberries, thimbleberries, and a lot more that are hard to name. Our cereal crops are F.fe,ani Black Sea wheats. barley ...

Published: Friday 25 February 1870
Newspaper: East of Fife Record
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1182 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE ELOQUENCE OF THE LASH

... THE ELOQUENCE OF THE LASH. Though in this planet ours (says the Globe) paradoxes are as plentiful as blackberries, still it is the first blush tilt' fact a thought Surprising that the human curs who are foremost murderously to others are tbe very first ...

Published: Thursday 14 July 1870
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN IN AMERICA

... amuses reader. We note the following from an American paper, showing that in America, where lady writers are plentiful blackberries, the sums they earn yearly are really worth the close industry which literature demands of its workers. Mrs Mary Clemmer ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 1871
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TURNIP GROWING

... upon for buying the seed by. If magnifying glass of sufficient power is used to show every turnip seed the size of a large blackberry, the farmer will plainly see that by sowing some seed (such I have got samples of) he cannot expect a crop of turnips, but ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1871
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 899 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

KELLY'S ACQUITTAL EXPECTED

... What, is it lousing him yiz are, after all the trouble it took me to notch hum? Why thin now, if they were as plinty as blackberries the divil a one of them I'll ever cutch again. The Dublin jury appear to have acted upon Mr Free's Principle. During the ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1871
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3183 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

KELLNS EXI•ECTED

... What, is it loosing him yiz are, after all the trouble it took toe notch Ilion ! Why thin now, if they were as plinty as blackberries the olive! a one of them I'll ever catch again. The Dublin jury appear to have acted upon Mr Principle. During the Fenian ...

THE FIFESIIIRE JOURNAL, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1872

... mosses, and at night, when alone, I thought about them all. When I hear people talking of this or that —of whinherriee, blackberries, or heather, I may to myself ; • I know those things—they are black, brown, green.' I saw them in my mind's eye, and every ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1872
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7756 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DINNER IN CELEBRATION OF THE FIFE HERALD JUBILEE

... Scotland. might state as another fact worth mentioning, that in Fife, in the town of Paisley, poets seemed to as plentiful as blackberries —(laughter)—and, seeing the Herald had always devoted a good deal of space to their productions, it might considered as ...

Published: Thursday 21 March 1872
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 9145 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE FIFESHIRE JOUANAL, THURSDAY, AUG 3ST 8,1872

... crossing it. The third I now recollect is ' He's gone to Saggart to stack blackberries,' applied to those who take a great deal of trouble for inadequate results : blackberries being the principal production of the barren hill sides of Saggart and its ...

Published: Thursday 08 August 1872
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5461 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... instead of worming it. The third I new reoollect His None to Sanmet to stack blackberries,' applied to thime who take • great deal of trouble for ioadequate results : blackberries bring the principal production of the barns bill aide. Seetgart and locality ...

HUMOROUS SKETCHES.—NO. 1,

... the son of a colliery blacksmith. Deceased, with two brothers, went to the Lambton Railway Inursday afternoon to gather blackberries, and, after searchinr' r the hedge for short distance, the two brothers crossedover to the other side the track and r ...

Published: Thursday 29 August 1872
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6809 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

REMINISCENCES AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES OF KENNOWAY

... hedgerows and clusters of trees, with pasture and cornfields; while northward there is a background of woods, where grow the blackberry, beath, wild thyme, and other moorland blossoms spread around a sweet aroma, and afford honey to the bee, -when summer clothes ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1872
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1574 | Page: 3 | Tags: none