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POETRY

... morning mist and evening haze (Unlike this cold gray rime) Seemed woven warm of golden air- when I was in my prime. And blackberries-so mawkish now- Were finely fiavoubd then; And nuts-such reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again. Nor strawberries ...

DOMESTIC

... ;. DOME8TIC.. BLACKIBEURR .Synup.-The following is the recipe for making the famous blackberry syrup, a remedy for: bowel complaints:- To. two quarts. of. blackberry. juice, add half an ounceach of powdered nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspide, and a quarter ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 853 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DOMESTIC

... strbggle pit j ' g e « .ejieat, ths may not' take place at oac`' = Pg all ibly not in three' * lh$ti BLACKBEREY JsELLY.-Blackberries (which are now in season) make a delicious jelly, of finer flavour than that o? any other fruit. It is made in the same ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1614 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

WIGAN DISTRICT

... left for a period of 6 hours, and it is a mercy that he was alive when found. He was discovered by a man who was out blackberrying, and who was at- traeted to the spot by his groans. Fortunately the even- ing was fine and dry, or lie would most certainly ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1847
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2173 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

PRESTON BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... stick is held good enough to beat an obnoxious dog. Where men have ready-made antipathies to wreak, reasons are plenty as blackberries to assignl for their actions. Again, to the cool-judging and unprejudiced, it must appear strange that, while the habitual ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1848
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 996 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... VILLAN.S-At the ?? petty A'lcolt .n Friday week, James Wild, an aged man, was ,,iitCti ,cf the heinous offence of gathering blackberries oitlrk-l ills, on the estate of Lord Sunfield, fined ten -inll ,i md colt, and in default of payment committed Ilous of ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1848
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3596 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TABLE TALK

... that I was sent to fetch the bulletin which would have kept me from a nice party, that was to go out Sfor the gathering of blackberries, I complained, with tears in my eyes, to my brother Daniel, about this de'il of an auld wife, that would neither die nor ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1848
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2501 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... attended school as usual, and in the I afternoon he, with two of his schoolfellows, proceeded. t along the cliffs to gather blackberries, little dreaming of F the sad fate which awaited him, and the anguish his pa- rents and friends were so soon to be plunged ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1849
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6291 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

GRAND VEGETABLE BANQUET TO THE POTATO ON HIS LATE RECOVERY

... assistance of two large soup. tureens, 'the' numerous idishesi were.all displayed. 'We had, among otherluxuries, t 1lfresh, blackberries and; bon-bons, the lattier where 'rather 'ildry,'and leae no doubt 'travellee'far. 'Each 'man 'had ?? i' .tbfrev pvonged ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1849
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1288 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS

... arts of no mean character, where, fifty years ago, it was a proverbial taunt to the natives, that they could not get even a blackberry to ripen. ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1850
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1620 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

POETS AND POETRY

... a sofa. Can it, then, be said, with any show of truth, that the elements of poetry are not as common and as plenty as blackberries 2 All art is poetical; and a taste for art redeems man from the sordid selfishness which is sure to gather round him during ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1851
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4007 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... their entrance into the fourth field from the road, Mrs. Salter was taken suddenly ill, when in the act of gathering, a few blackberries, and expired almost in- stantly. She was previously in delicate health. The 8 distracted and disconsolate husband immediately ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1851
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1772 | Page: 8 | Tags: News