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A LITTLE GIRL’S EXTRAVAGANCE

... sorry it cannot be—but rose cannot be turned into bud.’ Irishman was once ask si? had ever seen red blackberry. *To he sure I’ hare,’ said Pat; all blackberries are red when they’re graen.’ An Inquisitive priest having asked young lady her name in the confessional ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1876
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2066 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE BURGH OF WICK IN THE OLDEN TIME

... to the burgh, however. When demanded an extra force was put on for country service, especially in the berry-time, when blackberries were a tempta- tion and sermons an abomination to the wild boys of the burgh. The country beat of the spiritual tectives ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1862
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1402 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SCOTLAND

... Forfarshire, which Mantell Us obtained evidence to prove belong to batrachian. Those in clusters, and popularly known as blackberries, he believes to be the spawn of animals, of the fiog tribe; while other and larger ova, which occur singly or in pairs ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1852
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1325 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FACETIÆ

... ; the Luxurious, clov er ; the Greedy, cellery ; the Foolish gooseberries ; the Irritable, rasps ; the Roughs, stocks ; blackberries ; the Mournful, onions and rue ; the Speculator, the r ‘areful, honesty ; the Miser. marigold ; the Young ‘Lady, sweet ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1867
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1245 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Bee=Dive

... one wi.o»e vanity will purchase everything, but whose pride will cheapen nothing. Fallacies.—Fallacies are plentiful as blackberries, on any subject where men's passions are engaged. The lection, in any instance, is col how many reasons can utged, but ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1845
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1233 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HUDSON'S BAY

... leek kind, but these are very few; however, I am informed that some large ones are found inland. The country also produces blackberries, blaeberries, gooseberries and cranberries ; the last are used for curing the scurvy, which sometimes prevails the northern ...

Published: Friday 16 June 1837
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1399 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FRUIT TABLE-JELLIES AND FRUIT JUICES HOW TO MAKE AND PRESERVE THEM

... Fbuit Juices.— Take quantity of any kind of fresh berry fruit (red currant, black currant, cherry, gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry, cranberry, Ac.; also plums and rhubarb.) Clean the fruit, and put it into enamelled goblet or jelly pan. (Rhubarb should ...

Published: Tuesday 30 June 1891
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1254 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Facetia

... ladies is * beau-he.’ in favour among unmar- NONSENSE.—To think of curing a disposition for telling white lies by eating | blackberries, There is a benevolent citi zen who boil is the pudding- cloth every Christmas and gives the bro: h to the poor. * Tears ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1854
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1265 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE HORTICULTURAL SHOW

... gonse- berries from Stirkoke and Stemster, as big as small fine red and white currants from Stirkoke ; and fine samples of blackberries from Stirkoke , with a few cherries of enormous size from the former place, nearly com the inventory of the common fruits ...

Published: Thursday 03 September 1868
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1488 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Con.—What kin —Preserved pairs

... bouses with sheet-lead. Perhaps It was the same man who saw white blackbird sitting on a wooden mile-stone, eating a red blackberry. AN observant but not very rich old lady always bought her tea the quarter a pound, because she thus got what she termed ...

Published: Thursday 03 December 1874
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1244 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LONDON LETTER. — Lonpon, April 30, 1864. Tue week of the Shaksperian tercentenary is now at | an end, I

... closed the Shakspeare tercentenary Al S| so far as London is It seems we are goi tg to have centenarics as plen- tiful as blackberries now. It appears rather odd, » | and perhaps just a Jeetle uncomplimentary, to cele- 0 | brate the tercentenary of Calvin’s ...

Published: Thursday 05 May 1864
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1770 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

landlord. Honour aaked Barney had to to thia very lerioai offence. Barney Mid ha was Mrty—there was some ..

... month t when the nobility learned their “reading made easy under hedge, and saints travelled through the land thick as blackberries. And, Father Aqniois says, the graoe of ignorance preserved the peasantry from the sin of forgery, qnill pens were invented ...

Published: Tuesday 21 February 1893
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1424 | Page: 2 | Tags: none