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THE HABTLEPOOLE

... g tradespeople have laid in one would imagine tat prosperity had never deserted us, and that money was as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. The butchers, as usual, have crammed their shops with specially-fed cattle, and amongst the best displays in ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1879
Newspaper: Northern Weekly Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THEATRES

... accidentally shooting an enchanted duck; also the troubles of one serving-man to Count Sombresido. Sboke has devoured a magic blackberry, and becomes the possessor charm which gives anyone their wishes upon their slapping his face at the moment of wishing. ...

Published: Monday 22 December 1879
Newspaper: Hackney and Kingsland Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 373 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A BATCH OF EPIGRAMS

... word remarked, moreover, will probably bethought IP To indicate compteteness, and so it ought. ot VHAT'S IN A NAME 7 at Blackberries, the proverb says, t Are not really black always. 3i Thin saew is edged with reason, It As we have seen this season ...

THE WEEKS GOSSIP

... Bela. Leven and Duddon. but this is merely a matter of opinion, and arguments either side could be adduced as plentifully blackberries in autumn. There is one little thing difficult understand. The fisheries on Windermere are private, how is it that the ...

Published: Friday 26 December 1879
Newspaper: Kendal Mercury
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 938 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CHAPTER L

... climbing shrubs and maples and beech trees, with just enough bright green in the meadows to relieve it all. He had his blackberries thick on the bushes, and his nuts swayed in clusters on the breeze, while the apples in his many orchards blushed with ...

NOTICES OF BOOKS

... hardly-earned bread he obtains by trading in turnip-tops, violets, primroses, ferns, chaffinches, watercressea, mushrooms, blackberries, —but the list too long to be completed here. The following is extract from another chapter, particularly interesting just ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1879
Newspaper: Barnet Press
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1106 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE CHINESE TEA TRADE WITH TIBET

... four-anna pieces, and so strong is the demand, that three of these are worth a rupee. British army buttons are as common as blackberries. Even corkscrews are offered for sale in Ta-chienlu, although no one can explain their use. The presence of such miscellaneous ...

Published: Friday 26 December 1879
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1330 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CHAPTER L

... climbing shrubs au-l maples and beech trees, with just enough bright green in the meadows to relieve it all. He had hui-g hia blackberries thick on the and his nnts swayed in clusters the breeze, while the apples in his many orchards blushe I with even r.*sier ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1879
Newspaper: Banbury Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1519 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE SHOPS AT CSBISTMAS,

... tradespeople have laid in one would - imagine that pros- perity had never deserted us, and that money was as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. The butchers, as usual, have crammed their shops with specially-fed cattle, aad amongst the best displays in ...

CHRISTMAS MEAT

... in England for these and the canned fruits is rapidly increasing, amongst every other conceivablt, fruit cultivated, are blackberries, grown the same way as raspberries. A great deal of attention is paid to them, and they make a very fine berry, in a cultivated ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1879
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2560 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE TAUNTON OOUBIEB,'

... they had started to meet the conveyance which was to take them to the school. Their shortest way lay through a wood (the blackberry wood also of Action), and they had got a considerable way into it, Workis having each hand of the children (there is some ...

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS

... y shooting an enchanted dack; also the sufferings of one Shake, a serving to Count Sombresido. Shake has eaten a charmed blackberry, and bc comes the possessor of a charm which gives to anyone their wish upon their slapping his face at the moment of wishing ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1879
Newspaper: East London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2789 | Page: 2 | Tags: none