MRS GIRLING AND THE SHAKERS

... windproof, and the manner of living must be far from healthy. But the food, if rude, appears abundant—large hunks of bread, blackberries stewed with marrow, and something iv a large cauldron, which, as we looked,on, wizened old man was stirring. In and round ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 1878
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
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KIRK HOPE

... D. Mitchell; Kev. 11. M-Millan. Three Phloxes—lst, J. Baillie; 2d. D. Mitchell: 3d. J. Mitchell. Heaviest Twenty-four Blackberries—lst, David Nicholson 2d, Thomas Brown ; 3d, J. Mitchell. Twelve Gooseberries—lst, Buillie; 2d, Mary Mitchell ; 3d,.J. Baillie ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1878
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 557 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

??? REFLECTIONS ON COUNTRY LIFE

... IvC » ■ w hole of Perthshire, I *f the Lothians, I 1 the dev n tation I V Pr , J-he later crop of rasps I M y the pest. Blackberries I WV&C o v . and I saw one splendid I M e d for competxtion in I Hot cleaned of !l^ Siv of the berries. One I sbt fellow ...

Published: Tuesday 27 August 1878
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 843 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE RELIEI of THE C4BINET

... reel reasons which determined the course the Cabinet has taken. Reasons amulet everything it has done are as plentiful as blackberries, in the mouth of every Radical spatter who dish up a roc/mei* of a leader from the Daily Aim Even Sir DUAL goes over its ...

The coveted honour and profit attached to the high title of Queen's Prizeman at the Wimbledon rifle meeting ..

... practice. Compared to the sterility of nineteen years ago, good shots are now scattered over the country as plentifully as blackberries in June. The honour, therefore, which Mr Peter Rae succeeded in trapping on Tuesday last, is of sort which is yearly growing ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1878
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1129 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ONCE upon a time it would have been an act of daring profanity , in tlus part of the island

... Winchester , and shook in their shoes . Happily or unhappily , that time has passed away . A Bishop is no longer a rarity . The blackberry , not • the black swan , is now the appropriate similitude , tlie Episcopal dignitary liaving become , comparatively , as ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1878
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1743 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FEBRUARY

... was the pi sad at I the rut eta. iisa cab lees at the Sent the yard. Thou potpie Me peering the bows. Asa, awed bed amid% blackberry-vials, is net as mush the it le Thu Mood by rad the dry ewe% the ;sad weddi r l a t=out. We a& the sad with is wide °Week ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1878
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1179 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MR J. E. MUDDOCK

... it is to her i pen their shoulders the burden of the intri.nes that are found there, more plentiful by far tl an earthly blackberries, more prodigious and port ntoui than any comst that ever glared. They are all cousins of the celebrated Count of Monte ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1878
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1300 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... of the season. We are daily expectation of having a king or two on our visiting list; princes and dukes are as plenty as blackberries, and as for Counts, well, we don't reckon them at all. Nothing short of Dey or a Bey or Shah will create a sensation now ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1878
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1410 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OMAR 11162211 AND WOOL PAIR

... the trees. gooseberry and currant bashes are very much blasted, and the crop, especially of the former, is very deficient Blackberries awl rasps are a pretty fair cop : while strawberries, the whole, are making a good A In this district we have few large ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1878
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
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Knrieties,

... own bread, after a fashion. Half-a-dozen rods off was a pond, and he tells us that in his garden grew the ‘‘strawberry, blackberry, and life-ever. lasting, John’s wort and golden rod, shrub oaks, and sand cherry, blueberry, and ground-nut.” Having but ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1878
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
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FIGUiUC WATER COLOUR DRAWINGS,

... glossy plumage, is cleverly rendered. A. Durer Lucas exhibits five carefully-painted studies from nature. These are called Blackberries,” “Heath,” “ Wild Violets,” “Heath and Red Admiralty Butterfly,” and “ Wild Strawberries.” He also exhibits “ Ivory Fan ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1878
Newspaper: Paisley & Renfrewshire Gazette
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1351 | Page: 2 | Tags: none