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A FAIR EXCHANGE

... apple sauce. Mrs. Deacon Serewitt, however, managed matters quite differently. She had taken two cents a quart from the blackberry girl's charges that morning, because berries ripen so abundantly this season that ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1888
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ELZEVIR FALLACIES

... worth buying, and it was only after some painful experience that he learned that Aldines and Elzevirs were as common as blackberries, that of the majority of them it was only when they were in fine condition that they were worth buying, and that only a ...

Published: Thursday 06 September 1888
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE AMBASSADOR AND THE BEAUTY SHOW

... to be an original idea, whereas, not to mention our own admirable exhibition of barmaids, it is aa common in the Eaat as blackberries or black women, only the ladies do not contend for mere honorarium, but for husband not even wink passes between the c ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1888
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 284 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

SNAKE-KILLING IN PENNSYLVANIA

... Some of the moat successful snake killers are women and young girls, who make a businesa of gathering huckleberries and blackberries. An important part of a berrypicker's equipment ia stout stick, with which the Bnakes are killed. The country is hilly ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1888
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 354 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... premises in such thoroughfares as Lord-street for instance. To let notices in these newly erected offices are as common as blackberries in September, and for the very simple reason that the supply of elieble offices in Southport already considerably exceeds ...

Published: Sunday 14 October 1888
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 516 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

IMPORTANT SALE OP MODERN PICTURES

... guineas (Agnew); Charles the First and Prince Rupert, by Sir J. Gilbert, 1877,135 guineas (Voki s); Quinces, Plums, and Blackberries, with mossy background, W. Hunt, 135 guineas (Aghew); Tintagal Castle, Cornwall, by J. M. W. Turner, R.A., 205 guineas ...

Published: Monday 25 June 1888
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A GIRTON GIRL'S MARKETING

... omelet for Julius Augustus. But she never did, or rather, when sho got home, the omelet was made with a liberal admixture of blackberries, and the front of her aesthetic dress was ruined. Added to this was odour which sent Julius into spasms and frightened ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1888
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 491 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

ML OTONNKLL's Amoy ecunier

... have thoroughly despised the dupes to whom he offered it. year and a half ago documents of this kind were as common se blackberries. Anyone could buy there for a few pounds and some of them were very pretty imitations of Mr. Perusal's handwriting. It ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1888
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 582 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DRCEMBER 1 MIR

... an' I'm nobbut just gettin' rid o' one. And Billy sneezed. Yer yo that when I've not had a pinch o' snuff sin' last blackberry-time. Well, I'll send for the girl, said the porter, thinking he had got a queer visitor. But you'll have to wait awhile ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1888
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

8 wit ESCH.A.NGE

... apple sauce. Mrs. Deacon Screwitt, however, managed matters quite differently. She had taken two cents a quart from the blackberry girl's charges that morning, because berries ripen so abundantly this season that three cents was quite enough to pay instead ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1888
Newspaper: Cotton Factory Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1450 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... The gathering of mushrooms is, however, exempted from its provisions. No mention is made tbe Bill to the gathering of blackberries or ivy leaves, which in tbe autumn a large trade is done by florists and itinerant flower girls. learn that the Gaekwar ...

Published: Tuesday 22 May 1888
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 911 | Page: 5 | Tags: none