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... and there are h ldyt, mulitues of bad teachers. Pedantic pedagogues, of in 'sthe Dlr.B~limber cass re As plentiful as blackberries, and ho the mill~horo system of education is still in vogue. Over, a crammed students rarely tarn out well, while those ...

OUR LADIES COLUMN: BY ONE OF THEMSELVES

... delicate grasses, recalls the spring time to some one of mygueste,and others have appropriate apple blossoms, or a branch of blackberry bramble and wild olematis. So naturally I are they painted that they are sure to ex- ! cite attention and admiration, and ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1881
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2756 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... the nnmislakeable ig what tines of his voice, nay even his laugh, when I asked him I flaire if I should send him some blackberry jam, that I quite hazard, believed I was not the victim of some delusion. After a Canner, few minutes' conversation, and ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1882
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3436 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... me from her country homes is Cumn. ?? berland, telling of sorme dinner parties sie leas teen giving. or and saying that blackberry ltaves and white wax berries e-(by which I suppose slhe means the milk-white fruit of the, ?? bush sprnilehoriee ?? were ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1882
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2926 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... children, and rose to exhibit them sittiig on a bank, worn out with tbeir wanderings, the boy fieding his ?? sister with a hugs blackberry. made out of countless shoe buttons, tied together in a bunch of suitable size. Brobdignag robins were watching the children ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1883
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2840 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TABLE TALK. THE BOYS ANuOIHLS' CORNER. tnlto un>> '• rocipa openelh the licatl hut friond, to who* Tnvrso*. you may

... Es* SCHOOL DAYS. Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar sunning ; Around it still the sumachs grow. And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk seen, Deep scarred by raps official; The warping floor, the battered seats ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1883
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2769 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

FOLK LORE AND ANTIQUITIES

... veneration, or rather dread, with which the thorns were regarded. It was. and still Is, -a common belief the Bighlacds that each blackberry contolM a poisonous worm ; and another popular belld, probably kept up prevent children eating them when unripe, Is that ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1883
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1015 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

LOCAL IN’X'LLLIUBNOE

... managing owners for the Barrow Steam Navigation Company. Guides to the Isle of Man are in ordinary sense plentiful as blackberries; but -the work now under notice is novelty in its way, and, apart from the mere physiographical information which it affords ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1883
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4493 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... the ditches which produce reeds north of the Wyre are very pretty with the nodding reeds, which are feathering finely. Of blackberries there an abundant promise. will a couple of months as rule before they are ready for gathering, but I some Chat Moss during ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1883
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3892 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

the LADIES’ COLUMN,

... of my fellow beings never see an apple growing, nor hardly blade of gnm. oT* bedge-rowf with its clustering wild fruits, blackberries, and hazel nuts; and, again, 1 think what land of Goschcn this far-off country place would to those poor waifs and strays ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1883
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1924 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

I of InkiuK-hoases, not, rule, of the usual I typo, but there arc no amusements. consequence, however. not ..

... BfitterebVa who once went with them to tno cornfield, ond i/tbo pit the deed body of the littlo boy wee found. Thera ore blackberry hushes tlwpit.and is BUDDMed he mast have fallen into the water whilst trying P £w«ch the fruit, verdict of “Accidental ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1883
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1755 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE GARDI Fi-owkk*. Plaotiag rotes should bow pathed on with vigour. To plant roar properly the roots requite ..

... three varieties upen each; IjO plates of pears. 203 of peaches, of plums, 12 of apricots, 111 of cherries, of grapes, of blackberries, of strawberries, of raspberries, 24 of gooseberries, 36 currants, and 280 of roses. Each plate is particularly named. ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1883
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1749 | Page: 12 | Tags: none