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THE NEW YEAR'S GIFT

... family as if I had been born and bred among them. I found that I had come in a critical time, when secrets were plentiful as blackberries. It being New Tear's week, all the little hoarded resources of the children, both of money and ingenuity, were in brisk ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Huddersfield Chronicle
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4035 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Curtain'd in his cradle lies, In tranquil rest, light-hearted, While hit predecessor dies, The heir of the ..

... family as if I had been born and bred among them. I found that I had come in a critical time, when secrets were plentiful as blackberries. It being New Year's week, all the little hoarded resources of the children, both of money and ingenuity, were in brisk ...

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... JUSTICE. To the Editor of the Barnsley Chronicle. Sib,—ld the old times of border warfare, when raids and rievera were plenty blackberries on aide of the Tweed, and when it was even more diffioolt keep thleres than to them, praotioe sprang in the anolent bnrah ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1870
Newspaper: Barnsley Chronicle
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1780 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT,

... may be. called the piece it rcsiitance of thesession, the Iri fib Land Bill; followed up closely with promises plentiful blackberries October—relating to education, judicial reforms, Unlreraily tssts, transfer land, intestacy, disability of trades-unions ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1870
Newspaper: Knaresborough Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4191 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE CROCUS

... g eyes. LIZZIE AND 1. for the bright, sunny days of my childhood, When Lizzie and I rambled over the lea; And gathered blackberries away the wild wood. carelessly sang ’neath the shady green tree! Ob for the garlands of balmy wild flowers. We then used ...

Published: Thursday 31 March 1870
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 709 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

t THE BUDGET STATEMENT

... compulsory, and people do not like compulsion, no, not even as FALSTAFF says, though reasons for compulsion were plenti•fal as blackberries. Hence he adopts a kind of composite system in which we have a slight draught of the direct and a strong dose of the indirect ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1870
Newspaper: Richmond & Ripon Chronicle
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 530 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

April 23, l*'7 ' . the poor w..mau could not produce a legal medical certificate the mau'a death, the society

... >si .. ~a £ll)i for Ponies not exceeding all. The itside bookmakers, usuil, were , l(H , - . ~di. alas plentifal as blackberries, each whom appeared lo(rt , t ,. r inch under thst height, Ihe i llll n r trald Darin‘S tho huut by th« winner of ln-t ...

SHEFFIELD TOWN HALL

... rulings. Arc, were destroyed. The fire eventually subdued, and on Walker being questioned he admitted having igaited the blackberry briars with match, but -.»id he had been authorised so by the owner.—The son of the owner the property, Mr. Joseph Slack ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1870
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1073 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CONSECRATION OF BIRSTALL PARISH CHURCH

... from the richest architectural portion of Beverley Minster, the subjects of the capitals, &c., being the vine, maple, ivy, blackberry, and various other wild and cultivated plants. On the right of the nave are inserted the heads of the four evangelists, ...

SELECTIONS FROM PUNCH

... with in light comedies. To ask for heaviness in any tragic English actor, appears to us like asking for black- ness in a blackberry, or sweetuess in a sugar-plum. But perhaps this heavy man may be wanted to give weight t0 the characters he personates. ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1801 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

EXTRACTS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... with in light comedies. To ask for a heaviness in any tragic English actor, appears to us _ like asking for blackness in a blackberry, or sweetness -- in a sugar-plum. But perhaps this heavy man may be wanted to give weight to the characters he personates ...

TOB2IGN AND COLONIAL

... of these children, playing the street, dabbling in the gutter, from those of children that have the fields roam in, and blackberries the hedgerows! The of have great influence oyer the whole life. n1 children the poor farm labourer brought •r really rural ...