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AUGUST. The golden sheaves are gleaming in the sun On many bristling stubble: the lank grass Has suffered all its

... bristling stubble: the lank grass Has suffered all its brightest green to pass: The leaves are losing all that summer won The blackberries are ripening one by one : The hazel nuts are browning on the trees ; While 'mid the clover-blossoms all the bees Are toiling ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1884
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 118 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HANTS, DORSET, AND WILTS ASSIZES

... The train fortunately passed over it without leaving the line. The prisoner and a younger brother, who had been to get blackberries which grew on the embankment, were seen on the railway, and when arrested the prisoner said he was sorry he had placed ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1884
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 680 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SHOCKING DISCOVERY IN ASTRIDGE WOOD, NEAR WOKINGHAM

... supposed he had an attack of ague and fell, being then unable to get up. When he left home he said he should bring back some blackberries for his little girl; and he took her basket with him. John Wooldridge, a labourer, said on Monday morning he was going ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1883
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... admirable skill. Ihe subject is the Grand Canal from Ca' Bernardo. The other full-pnge illustrations are etching entitled 'Blackberry Gatherers, and a sea-fishing sceno, Their Only Harvest, from a painting by Colin Hunter. In the latter the drawing of ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1883
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 672 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AGRICULTURE

... Sydney, Australia, such fruits as the peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, fig, grape, cherry, and orange, are as plentiful as blackberries. The orangeries and orchards of New South Wales are among its sights ; and in the neighbourhood of Sydney and round Port ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1883
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 894 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HORTICULTURE

... When planted bo trained against an espalier the plants may be two feet apart, and six feet between the espaliers. Brsmbles, blackberry, may be planted at a similar distanoe raspberries, and be trained similarly to espaliers. The Lawton and Dorchester are ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1881
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 936 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WALLINGFORD

... seeing the defendants in some swedes belonging to Mr Kirby, in the parish of South Moreton. They said they were fickiug blackberries, but on searching them he found six rabbit nets in their pockets. A previous conviction for similar offence having been ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1884
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 909 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOTICES- HOSPITAL. - The Winter Session U Commence, MONDAY. OCTOBER The Hospital contains, besides the beds ror ..

... exceeding funny Comedietta A Clockmakeb's Hat. * Dd -dy Thursday, Friday, and Saturday by a Musical Come Drama entitled Blackberries. Refreshments will be provided In the Ban. Doors open at 7, to commence 7.50 p.m. Carri^9 tS at 10.30. j; Prices of Admission ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1887
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1326 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES

... CinderelD. The subject being chosen, Cinderella introduced in a picturesque wood, where the villagers are discovered picking blackberries and nuts. The countrymen and girls treat in a rough manner an old dame, whom Cinderella befriends, the old lady being none ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1888
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1468 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ODIHAM HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

... grapea, baskets of Barrington peaches, Vicounteeae Hericart de Thury strawberries, brown Turkey figs, and the new American blackberry (Wilson Junior); Lord Basing (gardener, Mr. Clark) an excellent collection of planta. Messrs. Sutton and Sons, of Reading ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1888
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1205 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... and water. The Town Hall had narrow escape. Two Little Girls Drowned. As two little Rirls named Stewart were gathering blackberries on cliff at Galway on Thursday, one of them fell into the river. Her sister tried to save her, and both were swept away ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1888
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1443 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CONDENSED INTELLIGENCE

... Mr. Bernard Wake, a Sheffield solicitor, has been fined 1?. and costs for savagely beating a man whom he found gathering blackberries in a wood. An Oxfordshire clergyman was sued at the Nuneaton county court on Saturday by J.T. Colletfc,describing himself ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1880
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1589 | Page: 4 | Tags: none