THE MODERN NUN

... little is known about them. It is case of •m« ipuotiim pro mtignifico. In Catholic countries, where nuns are plentiful as blackberries, no one dreams being sentimental tbeir score. Silly a nan,‘ , > , • Ignorant uuu, are the common proverbs testifying to ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1871
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 596 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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 

NUTTING

... lost their enjoyment of nuts. A few hours among the hazel-trees is capital recreation for all who can join in it. Like blackberrying it is not a very serious business, although sometimo3 very serious results follow, since many a young couple who begin ...

Published: Friday 20 October 1871
Newspaper: Christian World
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 622 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

RUGBY

... declined to allow them.—Four -mall boys' from Hillmorton were charged with stealing a jar, and gallon beer. They were black-berrying, and found the jar hidden a lane. They carried it off,drank part the beer, and returned the jar. Ordered to pay costs ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1871
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 646 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SCRAPS

... wrecked the coral reefs.” Two gentlemen paasiog blackberry bu«h wfcan the fruit wan unripe, one said it was ridiculous t© call them blackberries when they ware red. Don’t you know,” said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green.” A witty ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1871
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 2030 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

031canityp

... getitlenien, passing a buil) when the fruit was unripe, one said it Wal to call them blackberries when they were red. Ifron't you know, said his frieze], that blackberries are always red when they are green. Out of 1,000 specimens of London milk just ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1871
Newspaper: Nonconformist
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1223 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION IV

... Mr. Stephens' Blackberry Picking, well carved as it is, may be quoted as another example of what is to deprecated. What does it mean Here is a pretty, but absurd young lady, en desha bille, supposed to have been _ picking blackberries The truth is, the ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1871
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2017 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ZANG RUSSELL ON THE

... spot is now exceedingly rich in autumnal wild flowers and berries, and on the little girl pointing to 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 ...

Published: Thursday 31 August 1871
Newspaper: Burton Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1715 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Autatttpto,

... unbounrll claimed, What, is it loosing him yiz are, si te _ if trouble it took me to cotch him? Why thin were as plinty as blackberries the divil a one to I'll ever cotch again. The Dublin jury ceo! i f acted upon Mr. Free's principle During tn eor ie o ...

ODIHAM

... Mr. Jackson. A dramatic piece, Tweedleton's TailCoat Dramatis persona: Bobby Tweedleton, a poor relation, Mr. Birch ; Blackberry Thistletop, of Thistletop Farm, Mr. Aslett; Mr. Barnaby Bracebutton, Mr Fowle ; Mr. Pantechnicon Pantile, Mr. D. King; Evelina ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1871
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 604 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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 

SPRING

... of death, Braiding her hair with Vi LKTS, while the Rose Breathes It rich Incense the gentle breexe. T la like field of blackberry and bushes. Mean people equal down and pick the fruit, no matter how they Mack their fingers; while genius, proud and unbending ...