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THB.QUEEN OF THE FACTORY,.Bx J. MONK FOSTER,

... foliaged trees ; alder, elder, and other bushes there abounded ; the rich rank grass and bracken stood breast high, while blackberry brambles shot their lons trailing, climbing octopus-like arms here, there, everywhere. It was a rare biding place for hares ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1890
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 4872 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

LUBENHAM

... hymns. The chnrch was prettily decorated with corn, flowers, fruits, and vegetables. The font was covered with corn, moss, blackberries, and ferns^nd the pulpit wan decorated with pampas grass, wheat, flowers, and berries. Tbe windows were filled with fruits ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1890
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1825 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MAGISTERIAL PROCEEDINGS

... Waring : Did Wagstaff tell you he had been to Syston that day ? Yes, sir. —Did he say he had been blackberrying with his children ? He did not say blackberrying ; he only said he had been with his children.— l don't know if you made any enquiries respecting ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1890
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 3737 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

SLAVES OF FATE,

... Amid the tall waving fronds curly- headed youngster* were playing, while hither and thither others were busy picking the blackberries and posies. Under an old oak which cast a grateful shade far over tbe long grass, tbo band was playing, and the village ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1891
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 4256 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

SMALL CULTURE

... plantation of strawberries sbould be made every second year, the old one standing until the new one begins to bear welL Blackberries pay in some places, but the instances are so few and far betwoen that it iB hardly worth while to risk any money or space ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1891
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 4719 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

IN SCHOOL-DAYS

... Green-leaf Writ. ier. Still aits tbe school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning ; Around it still che sumachs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; Tbe warping fioor, tbe battered seats ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1891
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 280 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

yCAL AND DISTRICT NEWS

... Hospital. Battalion Orders by Col. A. H. W. Mansergh. — Leivester, 13th July, 1891.— The battaliou will go into camp at Blackberry Hill, Belvoir Castle, from the Ist to the Bth August. Officers commanding com- panies will send to the adjutant by the 24th ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1891
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 3606 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... Colonel Sir H.St. JOHN HALFORD, Bt., C.8., will, by kind permission of His Grace the DUKE of RUTLAND, KG., ?? ENCAMP AT BLACKBERRY HILL, Belvoir. Castle, near Redmile ?? THE CAMP Will be formed on Saturday, August Ist, and broken up on Saturday, August ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1891
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 17131 | Page: 8 | Tags: Classifieds 

LBCAL AflD DISTRICT NEWS

... Watford division of Herts. Mr. Ficton leaves town immediately, and will spend his holiday in Wales. The Volunteer Camp at Blackberry Hill.— Uiptam Humfrey (Adjutant), Captain Brooks ((Quartermaster), Sergeant-Major Drayton, and a fatigue party of 30 men ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1891
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2868 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE VOLUNTEER ENCAMPMENT AT.BELVOIR

... permission of his Grace the Duke of Rutland the annual encampment of the Leicestershire Volun- teers was held this year at Blackberry Hill, the beautiful and popular eminence skirting tbe grounds of Belvoir Castle. A more suitable spot, so far as the natural ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1891
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 3485 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MAGAZINES FOR SEPTEMBER

... Eglanton Thome, J. A. Owen, and Lily Watsm ; besides papers on pianoforte teaching, thoughts on the higher education of women, blackberries and how to use them, landscape sketching, wood carving, Irish laces, dress, and so forth. Out-door Gaaies and Recreations ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1891
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2503 | Page: 5 | Tags: none