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CHAPTER ll.—Chano* or Fatkl

... blossomed lower down among the green docks and luxuriant blackberry brambles. Amid the tall waving fronds curly-ueadedyoungsters were Cnng, while hither and thither others were y picking the blackberries and posies. I Under old oak which cast a grateful shade ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1891
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1686 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS

... to sd. per lb. ; chickens and ducks, 2s. euch ; apples aiul pears. 2a. to 2s. id. per score . scarce), sa. per 221b. ; blackberries, 4a. .'«1. (fuart. Two saaipk-a of Kngbab heat, m faiily satMactmy cooditiou, were offer. wheal, lls. 6d. t ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1898
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RANDOM READINGS

... said to belong the Prince of Wales. It is—so report goes —the mummified hand of one of the daughters of Pharoah. Growing blackberries and mushrooms, by law, are not private property. Yon may be prosecuted for trespass land where they grow, but not for theft ...

Published: Tuesday 14 July 1896
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 472 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STARVING BARROW

... form It is well-known that the greatest distress and privation exist. Some families have been subsisting on nothing but blackberries and anything rise they can manage to pisk Ufa Other families arc known have had hut one scanty meal in I two days and have ...

Published: Tuesday 15 October 1895
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LINGFIELD PAfiK CLUB MEETING

... sixth, Aniseed King's Own was sold to Mr. Macßvoy for lOOgs. and Esther was purchased by Mr. J. Hare for d2gs. 4 30.—The BLACKBERRY MAIDEN (at entry) TWO-YEAR OLD PLATE of 103 sovs.; colts 98t., fillies and geldings Bst. 111b.; winners after closing 71b ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1896
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1001 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PVLDE FARM AND OTHER NOTES

... number who tejl farmers what they ought to do, hut very few who will brio them to do it. Teachers ate becoming plentiful blackberries in the aolumn, but wwhwe not increase and mulUply ur the samo ratio. the lecture nom, the technical class, and ra the market ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1892
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

GARSTANG

... pork, to 4|d : damsons, Is 6d to 2s per 211bs ; apples, Is to 2s; rabbits. Is 6d to 2s3d per couple; pears, Is 3d to Is ; blackberries, to a quart Thb Jury Lists —Messrs. Swarbrick, Houghton, and Fielding, the assistant overseers, presented the list voters ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1896
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 621 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IMPORTANT LETTER FROM

... greater degree than ia likely arcrie to eonaoquenee having an eye only to the wagea rates, which beat yielda a* many thorns blackberries. ...

Published: Friday 10 March 1893
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 535 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GIUCKKT

... matches of the past week, aud played havoc with the majority the bowling averages. Kuos in several cases were plentiful blackberries in tho autumn, th-* wickets being very dry and fast. the weather continues anything like as favourable, it evident shall ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1895
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 584 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ELECTION ITEMS

... bow—and leave.” The Vermont I iousewife who read that nobles hare lot# ot hares in their preserves said she tried it in some blackberry jam, and doesn’t believe these foreign stories. Extract from evidence in a petty sessions case : Counsel fsrss you saw she ...

Published: Friday 22 March 1895
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 713 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LIVERPOOL

... lucre • the ik he. iv 4P> The like a few other;, would willing pnr for jjoo.! man. but k! are not eaactiy ae plentiful blackberries in all probahilitr t!*e dilficulty between the Wand*T and the ('vcbst.iv and Harrvrr will be settled. I Crclidts and -limb'd ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1894
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 639 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

his last annual report with reference to the camp for city boys be says:—“Even in the height of summer the sand ..

... richly embroidered with wild thyme, mosses, and a marvellous luxuriance of wild flowers. The creeping willow and flowering blackberry entangle the feet and form dense miniature jungle. Lusty, vigorous life is attested tall thistles in royal purple and clumps ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1893
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 786 | Page: 2 | Tags: none