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OUR PIONEERS

... woke up shivering in the morning, to find in the night the cow had eaten up his bed-clothes. Some times they had to eat blackberries from the hedges, or make a meal out of a wayside tur- nip field. Even when they did get meals in the houses they were seut ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1881
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3797 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE LADIFS' COLUMN

... 20. The amount of sugar to a quart should be:—For cherries, 6 ouncas; raspberries, 4; Lawton black- berrieR, Ij; field blackberries, 6; strawberries, 8; whortleberries, 4; quinces, 10; small sour pears, whole, 8; wild grapes, 8; peaches, 4; Bartlett pears ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1881
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1509 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SIMON PINKLE'S BOY

... unruffled like a great plain of glass upon which fairies coulel merrily dance in their midnight revels, without fear of blackberry bushes and thorns injuring their gossamer robes and upon which Zethyrs could draw little Cupid in a delicate sledge of silver ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1881
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 3076 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TWM SHON CATTY

... the edge of it many times without a thought occurring of seeking him there. In this retreat lie fed himself on nute and blackberries, and in the night roved about for recreation, but returned to his green-wood shelter before day-light. Even here, Twm's ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1881
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 4021 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE MISSING GAMEKEEPER NEAR CARDIFF

... canopy of the heavens. This time, how- e is ever, he has taken money with him, and it is not if supposed he will live on blackberries, or X n even -wild fowl, and while some fear he may have t .- done himself harm, others suggested that he has r .- not ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1881
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1002 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

COWBRIDGE FARMERS' CLUB

... theirsons, they a give them some profession; and the consequence a is that professionals in some places are as thick as blackberries, and can scarcely find elbow room. I , firmly believe that in consequence of rents in many a places Itaving adv'anced ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1881
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 13183 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

IMETROPOLITAN CHURCHES AND ICHAPELS.j

... must, of course, be under- stood to exclude Wales, for it is well known that clerical sinecures are almost aa thick as blackberries in certain parts of the Principality. We do not grudge the clergy a good income, Far from it. We believe that the hardest ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1881
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1351 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE WELSH SUNDAY CLOSING ACT

... of sweetness and light, and that thi ?? there is rio actual need of mere of them. They are Lted. almost as thick as blackberries; one can hardly r a8 :is step without seeing them. We think that whole lie Caordiff, which is a larger town than this, ...

Published: Wednesday 07 September 1881
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 3300 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ANNUAL LICENSING SESSION I AT SWANSEA

... actual need for more. Some of those for whom he spoke felt, indeed, that public-houses in Swansea were almost as thick as blackberries at this time of the year—they could hardly go any- where without stumbling over public-houses—and they thought also with ...

Published: Wednesday 07 September 1881
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3162 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ANNUAL LICENSING SESSION AT ABERDARE

... actual need for more. Some of those for whom he spoke felt, indeed, that public-houses in Swansea were almost as thick as blackberries at this time of the year—they could hardly go any- where without stumbling over public-houses—and they thought also with ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1881
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3102 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MERTHYR

... Weeks were charged with trespassing on land belonging to the Werfa Company. One was found sleeping, and the other gathering blackberries. Weeks was fined 2s 6d and costs, and the other defendant was discharged. UNLAWFULLY STORING GUNPOWDER.—D. Jones, grocer ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1881
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE STUDENTS OF PONTYPOOL COLLEGE

... togather a blackberries, they say it was an old custoim of the a college for thie Juniorstudents to do so occasionally during the season. Thev had willingly done so themselves when they were juniors. And theI present principal partook of the blackberry h eake ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1881
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 2911 | Page: 3 | Tags: News