GOING A-BLACKBERRYING

... same dog-fox Ulysses is not proved worth a blackberry. Once more the blackberry is not without its folk-lore, and there is a popular superstition that the Devil always puts his cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmas Day, and on this account it ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1881
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1354 | Page: 19 | 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 

PILFERINGS FROM PUNCH

... strawberries, plovers' eggs, asparagus, ortolans, and green peas are as plentiful as blackberries-more plentiful, we are glad to say, as we never relisbed blackberries; and even bankruptcy, which wae once the exclusive luxury of the aristocratic trader ...

Published: Friday 22 April 1881
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 622 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE GROSVENOR FAMILY

... coronets and finery; but, inasmuch as we too are being touohed by the Norman fever, and Esquires, are more common than blackberries, 'tis as well that our Jones's and Robeits's should be protected by their ap' as the Saxon gentles should be preserved ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1881
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

GOODY TWO SHOES

... the rask by a thorough esaniula- tion of the publications issued by Newbery, and which he assures us :re as scerce as blackberries in uidr'inter, now coumes forward with a view to restore to Goldistiol thrie honours of the author- ship. A certain distinct ...

Published: Monday 18 April 1881
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

HARVEST HOMES AND THANKSGIVING SERVICES

... r having the Communion rails, pulpit, windows, and font Dl prettily decorated with moss, coloured leaves, hunches of P, blackberries, and apples, all tastefuilly arranged. The ir collection Fatr the service was given to the church restoration fund. It ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1881
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 2248 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

PROFESSOR THORPE ON THE AZORES

... of Pico; there were pumpkins and pine apples, passion flower fruit and pomegranates; peaches were almost as plentiful as blackberries; and apples and a pricots were to be had for the asking. The first member o the Azores was discovered in 1432 by the Portuguese ...

Published: Thursday 17 February 1881
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 929 | 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 

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 

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 

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 

MISCHIEF'S ADVENTURE

... en tell her everything. he I see. 'Then I suppose you htve not told her that yon te- greeted me so affectionately in Blackberry-lonu P 0, sYu- wae it fou y nfl Indeed it was, she replied with a low laugh, and she lve added to herself, ' The ...

Published: Wednesday 28 December 1881
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2537 | Page: 6 | Tags: News