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THE LAND OF BLACKBERRIES

... whither we went from Stepney at eight years of age Blackberrying. We knew almost every dell, and cover, and tangled copse, and from any path could lead you direct to the richest garden of blackberries. We knew the haunts of Hornsey, and Finchley, and ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1853
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CORA LINN

... the way, Put forth their golden pride. Even hedges, busk'd in bravery, Look'd ricn that sunny morn, The scarlet hip and blackberry So prank'd September's thorn. In Cora's glen the calm how deep! Its trees, on loftiest hills, Like statues stood, or things ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1838
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

WHEN I WAS IN MY PRIME

... morning mist and evening haze, Unlike the cold, grey rime. Seemed woven waves of golden air, When I was in my prime. And blackberries, so mawkish now, Were finely flavoured then ANd hazel nuts such clusters thick I ne'er shall pluck again; T. Nor strawb'ries ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1840
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... Jones's prophecy, that the days of the Abergavenny Eisteddlod are numbered—I think not. False prophets are numerous as blackberries. Whether the Bard will be an unit in addition to these, time alone can reveal. I sincerely hope, for the next Eisteddfod ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1848
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... through a linen cloth, is left to ferment. It is then boiled again, and ahowed to ferment in suitable casks. In Provence, blackberries are used to give a deep colour to particular wines. A waiter at a tavern being reprimanded by the master for not attending ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE, Ike

... winters, and the quantity it produces late in the spring. It is a curious thing that the only native fruits of England are the blackberry, elderberry, acorn, and hips and hawes. For every thing else, both fruits and vegetables, we are indebted to other countries ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 441 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

-THE AMERICAN FRUIT CROP

... birds on New Hampshire hills are feasted with raspberries, the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are purple with blackberries which go to waste, and the time has been when an extra good crop of peaches in Delaware has meant a million baskets of ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1878
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 438 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SHOCKING DEATH IN A RAILWAY TUNNEL,

... Leicester Infir- mary, where she died soon after, without having re- covered consciousness. In her pockets were found some blackberries, with two shillings and eightpence, but nothing whatever which would serve to identify her. It has not been discovered ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

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... rabbits, digging vertically into the burrow just where the nest is. They are very fond of acorns, nuts, &c., and will pick blackberries off the' brambles. When out for food they hunt with their snout on the ground like' tne pig; their sense of smell does ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1877
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Cfte €team of Ijiturb

... rarity of true friendship, but this must be a gloomy libel on human nature, for sincere friends, if not as plentiful as blackberries, are at least as numerous as newspapers. We put it to the experience of all readers of the public journals—either daily ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 610 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CHIT CHAT CONCERNING WOMEN AND BOOKS. -

... effigy, nor Bristol in reality. Women WOMEN against the world. Of books it is hard to speak for they come upon us plenty as blackberries and yet leave time to the leading authors of the day to get up leading articles for every magazine that—shall we say swims ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

OUR LIBRARY TABLE

... Wimbledon. A BLACK OFFENCE. —-We understand that tha Jamaica Council have determined to prosecute any persons who are found black-berrying. THE HEALTH OF TEE METROPOLIS.—MUCH. TIRPRE may be looked for about the time of harvest invariably a sickle-y season. ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: 5 | Tags: News