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SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... undreamt of a quarter of a century ago) of £600. Champion Baron Sedgemere is one of the famous litter by Stockwell ex Champion Blackberry, born in 1895, which also included Champion Boaz, Mr. G. R. Sims's well-known Barney Barnato, and Baroness Sedgemere. The ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9983 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

CITY NOTES: THE STOCK EXCHANGE POSITION

... be in the swim. From all parts came anxious inquiries as to what was the right thing to buy, and tips were plentiful as blackberries. Stock Exchange men by the dozen laid in shares for themselves in concerns the very spelling of whose names they were ignorant ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3645 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORLD OF SPORT: RACING NOTES

... and from his work. o O The S win cannot make up my mind over the Lincolnshire Handicaps Handicap. Rumours are thick as blackberries in am icaps. autumn, and it is impossible for one to sift the wheat from the chaff. Laffan is, it is rumoured, being backed ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1389 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... like to come up to the theatur, when we 've saved a bit of money by all our up- gatherings, for we goes a-gleaning and blackberrying, and we picks sloes from the hedges to make sloe- gin, and we gathers bushels of chestnuts and sells them to the Squire ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6391 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK of the WEEK

... awaken the slumberers in the fields with the melodies of their bronzen bells the hedges are thick with the ripest of juicy blackberries, large luscious melons are for sale (a penny each) in all the village shops, and cocks and hens make piteous appeal to ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4761 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORLD OF SPORT

... weights this year have been compiled by Messrs. Topham, who, by-the- bye, run the show. Tips for the race are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, but in this particular race you want to take them with a fall barred. I shall, at this early stage of the pro ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1104 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

WEEK-END PAPERS: The Season in Scotland

... remainder being in an advanced state of decay. Trees have sent their branches into the bedroom windows, and the long, trailing blackberry has forced its way into dining-rooms and kitchens. The main-road was once sewered and made-up, but is now buried beneath ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1905
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1249 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

WEEK-END PAPERS

... stubble-fields have been already under the plough, and with the wind comes a suspicious and regrettable fall of leaves. Blackberries are ripening, harvest is over, summer has waned. But when we come first to the domain of the red grouse the corn is only ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1291 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

AFTER DINNER: In Time of Sport and Peril

... King Jerome. WHITE BLACKBERRIES s THE ICEBERG. The white blackberry here illustrated was grown by a well-known breeder of new fruits and flowers. It was, of course, obtained by crossing, one of the parents being the Lawton blackberry. The new plant is ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1261 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

WORLD'S WHISPERS

... If he is only to get a light imprisonment on the rare occasions when he is caught, then he will remain plentiful as the blackberries in the month o' September. The Apache hates physical pain. He is only com fortable when he is shooting his victim at long ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 957 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

BRUMMELL: IDIOT & PHILOSOPHER; Still on the Type Tack

... cities in that peculiar country which Columbus must have regretted to have discovered. And there she is as common as the blackberry upon the hedge. But I am endeavouring to keep to pleasant topics, to the English-made article, for I am a Tariff Reformer ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1196 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs