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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... beeches at Sovenoaks, the chestnuts and hacels around Lord Darnley's seat. at Cobbamn, and later in ?? season the arbutus, the blackberry, amd the holly, lhave been loaded with fruit and berrie3, so that the trees have been' bending ilider their weight. I hear ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1877
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1555 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE WAR AND THE RUMOURS OF THE WEEK

... that Plevna must fall—that it was about to be sur- rendered, and kindred telegraphic sensations, have been as thick as blackberries. Plevna, however, continues in the hands of the Turks, and if could believe a telegram from the Standard's cor- respondent ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1877
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1448 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POACHING AS A PROFESSION

... Philologists may trace a resemblance between the present provincial word mouching and Shakspeare's m itcher, who ate blackberries. Of the three probably the largest amount of business is done by the local men, on the principle that the sitting gamester ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1877
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1572 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... the provisions of the Vaceination Aets have been £C60 moat rigidly enforced, there will smallpox be as pleniti- ful as blackberries. To prove this true Ineed oily men. ?? ton Louaon, Blirmingham,, Liverpool, ltanh-ester Sl Blackburn, and Preston, the ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1877
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2779 | Page: 6 | Tags: News