PICKINGS FROM PUNCH

... Song (4lpropos of tho Militia - mean to do without them !1 Street Nomenclature.-Change of Nanic.- road to be in future Blackberry-road. Latest from the House.--Dr. Playfair, thicl;-e has been suspended by Mrs. Drown, the Cli a!oll;iill Short Title for ...

HIS DEAREST WISH: A NOVEL

... regard to herself. She is becoming quite a celebrated toast, like I was. Then I say suitors must be as plentiful as blackberries, replied Mr flog. So, so, Miss Winnie, he added, laugh- ing, we may expert Ae hear that you are making the whole county ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... From the log evidence it appeared that the deceased, who was DU a healthy boy, ate four swede turnips and a pint be of blackberries. After hearing the evidence of Er. Dr. H. J. Kenn, who deposed that the deceased or died li-om imidainainzon of the iiltestinah ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... is always bad for the pitcher. Tbe man who pays more for shop rent than for adver. sic don't understand his business. The blackberry is so named because it is blue, in order 0 distinguish it from the blueberry which is blacks. If you have a pretty daughter ...

CONSISTENCY IN COSTUME

... will be free from these :e iny paraphrases of some of Nature's sweetest ale e eubodied in fruit and flower. Would ..t blackberries, ivy - berries, or black turrants bs equally gr.sf-expressing, and t liftie amore consistent ? AL beautifualE aied novel ...

PARIS FASHIONS

... chenille fringe, either in single strands as thick as a cl i:lady's forefinger, set sparingly, and completed by an c acorn or' blackberry of clustered bugles, or a lose double row of small cbgalle. fdished oaf with beads, of I gold, amber, or garnet. Gold used ...

LIKE SHIPS UPON THE SEA

... germinate in the poorest ground, then as successive growths of this weed decay and vegetable mould accumiulates, r spberry ind blackberry vines spring up from seeds brouglht by bilrds. Theru come the birches and mountain cherry trees, sheltered at first by the ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1883
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7228 | Page: 25 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... d2 the dramtatis personse are all brought together, virtue Is rewarded, vice-is punished, and-money is as plentiful as blackberries are in autumn. Mliss Myra -Helms msde a very pretty picture in her. riding-habit a a haute equestrienne, and was properly ...

THE OLDEST ACTOR ON THE STAGE

... everything he says must be takea in good humour and in good truth. Transpontine authors were in my time as plentiful as blackberries, and almost as cheap; and I never,-as one of them, got upon an average a 5 note, until Mr Barrett gave me about six times ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2607 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MAD JACK HALL OF OTTERBURN

... uttering a preliminary clucking, addressed to her offspring, withdrew with them to the friendly shade of the hedge, where the blackberries, already ripening, clustered in purple bunches amongst the dark green leaves, Far below, beneath the sunlit nastures and ...

MAD JACK HALL OF OTTERBURN

... himself to General Forster. Aye, WVogan? Well, he'll be mighty acceptable, seeing that our recruits are not as plentiful as blackberries. What is his name? Mlr John Hall of Otterbarn. John Hall, repeated Forster, with a look of slight dis- apppointment; ...

ONLY A WOMAN'S HEART

... barely sufficient to keep the wolf from the door; for the pro- e fession was overstoocked, teachers were as plentiful as v blackberries in the autumn, and the pay wss miserably t poor. Her history was sad enongh-one of those romances of fe real life which ...