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THE NATIONAL EDUCATION SCHEME

... nation to accept any bless. ing thrust upon it. If reasons for the amelioration of the community were as plentiful as blackberries. John Bull would do nothinguponconmpulsion,andsupa tough matter as education is not to be forced upon tn. willing people ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1122 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Literary Selections

... SMALL PHsILosorEsas.-The world is full of small philosophers, ready at a moment's notice to give you reasons as plenty as blackberries for anything whatever. They as a general thing believe that the changes of the moon have an important influence upon the ...

LONDON GOSSIP

... Englislrmas is very unsavoury just now in the French nostrils. Lven in Paris, where our countrymen have been as plentiful as blackberries-in those particular quarters of the city that is to say, which they effect-the dislike ri the lower classes to us has at ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2031 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Advertisements & Notices

... at Rcasonabrlc Chages. TOTICE.-Anyfperson found TRESPASSING N on Ribby. Hall Estate, in search of mushrooms, gathering blackberries, or fishing, will be Prosecuted..- Ribby Hall, Kirkham, July 6th, 1671., MANCHESTER AND L1VERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ...

Poetry

... forget The least or thy sweet trifles I The window vines that clamber yet, Whose bloom the bee still rifles I The roadside blackberries growing ripe, And in the woods the Indian-pipe? Happy the man who fills his field, Content with rustic labour I Earth does ...

LANCASTER

... assault upon a respectable married woman, Mrs. Smith, the wife of a p lumber and glazier. She and a little girl were out blackberrying on the canal banks, near Aldeliffe, when prisoner went up to Mrs. Smith, threw her down, and at- tempted to commit the ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1872
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 855 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

WHITSUNTIDE FESTIVITIES

... every case they have been successful in forcing up wages and re- ducing working hours. Strikes have been as plentiful as blackberries, and at one time, there were all the evil forebodings imaginable, ?? put almost everybody in the dismals ; but society ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1873
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9587 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... during the past few months swept through the town, and the victims of the disease have been plentiful in every district as blackberries in autumn. Scarlet Fever lias held high revelry in our midst, and the death rate has been run up to an alarming figure ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1874
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4880 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Advertisements & Notices

... md R.A.: The~ Swing, The Hill Road, iGathering as WildB Rose Tce Cottage Nurse, The Seaside Swing, 1 - The Blackberry Gatherer s, The Rustic Bridge, ?? Time, and Al Shay Nook, by Birket Foster; ?? Maggiore and nLake Nisidi' (the prize ...

Advertisements & Notices

... R.A.; French and English, The Hill Road, Gathering Wild Roses, The Cottage Nurse, The . S Sea Side Swing, The Blackberry Gatherer, The Rustic Bridge, Milking Time, and Shady Nook, by Birket Foster; Grandfather's Conceit, His First ...

BLACKBURN: ITS NEWS AND GOSSIP,

... comfortable meal, as was thle yes wont of other ministers, lie liad to wonder about end pick r or- hips, and Liaws, and blackberries to quieten the pangs ofa lie hunger. But' independently of this exclusiveness, the ,ght eonnexion wag very poor, and many ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1875
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3990 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

BAZAAR AT HAMBLETON

... How they won out fair mothers by Kitty Lowe Well. H We've searched by the twilight, and sought by the dawn HE ~cFor the blackberry rips and the mushroom full grown; da And a bouquet we've made too delicious to tollI, And regealed the fair maidens by Kitty ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1875
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1821 | Page: 5 | Tags: News