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... He is not exactly like Falstaff, yo after the rdhbery at Gadshill, who protested that if ho reasons were as plenty as blackberries he would not A1 give them; hut he is quietly and proudly confident lei that he has at last achievejl scone power in the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 April 1880
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3253 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

District News

... against him; Husselby said he was at the weir to see the salmon jump, and Brettle said lie was at a distance gathering blackberries- Mr. Worthington called the informant, John Swanwick, who said he was water-bailif, stationed at Tutbury. On the morning ...

Published: Wednesday 27 October 1880
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 12349 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Local Topics

... which have been laid on their shoulders since their enforced annexation to the borough. Reasons were given, plentiful as blackberries, why the district of New Normanton required the outlay; and rea- sons are always ready to hand when the ratepayers grumble ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1881
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 987 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

District News

... the Sessions-Bail was accepted. A WARNING TO BLACKBERRY GATHRERs.-Tvwo elderly married women, Sarah Whitworth and Sarah Harston, both residing at Killamarsh, for committing, damage upon a number of blackberry bushes in a wood in the occupation of Mr. Pearce ...

Published: Wednesday 24 August 1881
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3281 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MR. BRIGHT AT BAY

... it must fail and he will reply because it must, and that his questioner is a fool. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries he would give none. At the end of his letter to Mr. BARRow, however, a bit of Mr. BRIGHT'S true nature shows itself thus:- ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1881
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1488 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Local News

... potatoes of the present yield being both abundant in crop, large in size. and but little infected, so far, with disease. Of blackberries, the poor man's fruit, the quantity is tolerably good, while the season has, for, mushrooms, been better than those of ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1881
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3831 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MR. HOBSON'S KNIGHT

... so lavishly, we had almost said so recklessly, bestowed? If this sort of thing goes on, Knights will be as plentiful as blackberries, and the distinction will be not, indeed, to be a Knight, but not to be one. We are reminded of what Moore wrote at a ...

Published: Wednesday 11 April 1883
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1441 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Odds and Ends About Derbyshire

... frost which spoils in a c:g'e night the whole crop of blackberries, ant i3 Ci rides4 apart from its sign of being a hard ailer, ad r event. The usual time for the devil to C' his ciethtc the blackberries is about the 10th of Detor, ;, if ; , happens in ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1883
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2089 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Odds and Ends About Derbyshire

... At any rate it is local; wre don't share it with any other county. Every day expressions are as common and plentiful as blackberries in season. I give a few singular ones and hope they will bring out others :-There wall be a dust i' th' island; th' skreets ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1883
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2286 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHURCH MUSICAL SERVICES

... :-Gooseberry, 3011 tons ; raspberry,30011 tons;. f strawberry, 200 tons ; black currant, 400 tons ; danisn 500 e tons ; blackberry, 100 tons. They can he bought from d ready-mioney .grocers in two and'three-pound stoneware s. jarsi, at the following prices ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1884
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2203 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OUR COUNTY ROADS

... :--Guoseberry, 300 tone ; raspberry, 100 tons; the strawberry. *-00 tons; black currant, 400 tons; damson, 500 of f tons; blackberry, 100 tons. They dan be bought from tiat ready-money grocers in two and three-pound stoneware brot jars, at the following ...

Published: Wednesday 13 February 1884
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2050 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Parliament

... is :-Gooseberry, 300 tons; raspberry, 300 tons; all strawberry, 200 tons; black currant, 400 tons ; damson, 500 ,ld tons; blackberry, 100 tons. They can he bought from ith ready-money grocers in two and three-pound stoneware his jars, at the following prices ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1884
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7090 | Page: 3 | Tags: News