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ODDS AND ENDS

... garden and reads • newspaper. Elie hopeful, bandy- I legged son toddles about hunting for blackberries. Tommy waddles up to big parent and asks— Papa, have blackberries get legs? Of course they I haven't got any legs. Go away now, don't I me any more foolish ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1884
Newspaper: Dundee Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1826 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES

... such tract of pasture land would make your cowboys out West mad with euvy, and right under the burning equator we have fed blackberries and bilberries, and quenched our thirst with capital water fresh from the snow beds. We have also been able to add nearly ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1889
Newspaper: Dundee Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 366 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GLIZNASICRVIK

... Aberdeee. The 'bow of vegetables was excelleat, especially turnips, potatoes, carrots, caulikoweirs, and rhubarb. Is Gait, blackberries, strawberries, rasps, and goose. berries were exoeptionally good. In cut doyen, rouse, marigolds, and asters were much ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1889
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 367 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A MONTH IN SEARCH OF WORK

... September I.—Next morning, seeing there was no chance work Leicester, -I walked to Coventry, eating on the road a few blackberries from tho hedges. I got to Coventry about seven o'clpck, and sold two pairs socks and shirt fur ninepeuce, and went to bed ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1886
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A ROYAL BALL

... worn by Lady Brooke. The supper, which went all night, was the best ever set before a king.” Peaches were plentiful as blackberries in a hedgerow, while strawberries cf gigantic size were to be had in abundan9e, and the flowers, arranged in moet perfect ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1883
Newspaper: Dundee Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

STORIES axp SK&TCHES BY THE WAY. PROVERBS

... saw which is just as suitable now as it was in the old Bamotian days of Hesiod. To come nearer home, thev arc thick as blackberries in the Welsh Triads, and discover the rustic manners of the ancient Britons. *‘The bad farmer’s hedge is full of gaps,” ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1880
Newspaper: Dundee Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 416 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ODDS ANi) ENDS

... garden ami reads a newspaper. His hopeful, bandy- legged -on tod lies about hunting for blackberries. Tommy waddles up to his pa relit and asks— Papa, have blackberries got legs? Of course tiiey haven't got any legs. 1.0 away now, and don't ask me any ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1885
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1472 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HISTORICAL PERSONAGES AS STAGE HEROES

... ; and whether it be a Philip of Spain, Gustavus of Sweden, or a Borgia of Italy, examples may be found, as plentiful as blackberries, in surrounding countries also. It goes without saying—as our brothers across the Channel express it—that make as free ...

Published: Monday 15 June 1885
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 487 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PORRIDGE IN PERTHSHIRE. — Women in Western Perthshire are largely employed in outdoor farm work, and receive ..

... silk poke bonnets, under which they wear nice white frills. a little They often make money by gathering bil- berries or blackberries, or selling honey. Several old ladies over eighty would walk seven or eight miles to bring us fruit. The country folk, ...

Published: Tuesday 06 December 1887
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 455 | Page: 4 | Tags: none