WIT AND HUMOUR

... this spoon was dirty. Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit was smrripe, one said it was ?? to call them blackberries when they were red. Don't you know, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are ?? World of Wit ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1871
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

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... is now exceedingly rich in autumnal wild flowers and berries, and on the little girl pointing to a tempting cluster of blackberries the nurse tried to reach them and fell over the cliff. Fortunately her fall was broken by an elder tree, where she was ...

EPPING FOREST

... school children. Many schools go by rail. The boys, too, trudge down _ by roa( for a summer day in the Forest, or ) autumn blackberrying. There are lads and lassies by the a thousand of course, and grave fathers and mothers with s their children. They are ...

Published: Friday 17 March 1871
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 955 | Page: 6 | 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 

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 

HARVEST FESTIVAL AT BARROW GURNEY

... trailed over the top and sides, and along the base were laced flowers, evergreens, clemnatis, and barley, with clusters of a blackberries at intervals; while a couple of bouquets of choice flowers stood in the centre flanking a miniature wheat-sheaf. I hb effect ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1871
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE MODERN NUN

... little is known about them. It is a case of omni ignotumn pro maoquflco. In Catholic countries, where nuns are plentiful as blackberries, no one dreams of being sentimental on their score. Silly as a nun, Ignorant as a nun, are the common proverbs testifying ...

Published: Tuesday 29 August 1871
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 794 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... the coral reefs. Two gentlemen, passing a blackberry bush when the fruit was unripe, one said it was ridiculous to call them blackberries when they were red. Don't you know, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green. I A LEARNED ...

Published: Saturday 09 December 1871
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2665 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

North Wales Chronicle

... up my census paper, and even to serve my country as a militia-man, but to vote upon comlpulsion-n10, tsloull votes ?? as blackberries ! And yet some such umea- sure must sooner or lator be the sequel of the ballot. ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1871
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1190 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE AHMPSTEAD SMALL-POX HOSPITAL

... were in the handwriting of Bentley. At one time the founda- tion of a wall gave way, and several boys got out and went blackberrying, but it was immediately stopped up. The clothes of Elizabeth Beaue had disappeared and he could account for that in no ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1871
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1203 | Page: 6 | Tags: News