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MOONSTRUCK

... the time be? I am not very anxious to know. The world just now holds me between the meshes of a hammock. My horizon is a blackberry-bush and two brown pines. Their trunks have been cut open for resin, and the air is full of a bitter-sweet smell from the ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1136 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WHEEL AND THE WING: A Word of Comfort

... of British aviators abroad has been Pilots stated, only recently, as about 250. Skilled pilots are not as plentiful as blackberries, nor are they to be picked up by recruiting-sergeants, and possibly the man in the street may regard 250 as a considerable ...

Published: Wednesday 11 November 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1075 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTLEY NOTES: TO-DAY'S MENU

... Royal British Vegetarian Cookery College.) Approximate cost per head i life. Elm-bark soup. Casserole curried toad-stools. Blackberry cutlets. Braised ash-leaves. Straw. Earth salad. Rain-water. Michaelmas-daisy crescents. Recipe for Elm-Bark Soup. Ingredients: ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1011 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

VOGUES AND VANITIES: The Important Trifle

... every thing, if it 's 'or.lv '.a beaded blackberry or an odd scrap of. coloured wool. Take millinery. Quite the best hats of the moment have a vegetarian or fruitarian tendency, and really a war time ration of blackberry -and-apple tart has better decorative ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1144 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE RED PARASOL

... he paused while the red parasol dallied on the hillside and coquetted with wild roses. Even making due allowance for the blackberry -bushes and the gorse, it's course deviated more than Martin judged necessary, and his hopes alternately rose and fell till ...

Published: Wednesday 10 October 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1854 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

TOPICS OF THE TIME

... more or less success, the Government is now making arrangements for going blackberry- gathering. Thousands of Government agents, says the Daily Telegraph, will gather blackberries in the highways and byways, the fields and the woods and, as they are to ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 970 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

TOPICS OF THE TIME

... and women, the children who went on strike because they thought the Government was not U paying them enough for picking blackberries What utterly detest able citizens they are on the way to become Picking black berries The joy of it to some children And ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 895 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

MISS LONDON RURALISES: A THAMES-SIDE BOX O' TRICKS

... in hospital. In the top left-hand photograph she is seen (on the left) with her sister Dorothy, of Yes, Uncle! picking blackberries, and again in the lower photograph on the left with Miss Norah Swinburne, also of Yes, Uncle In the upper right-hand photograph ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 130 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

WHY O, WHY?

... that grounds are that which is left over after any liquid has been drawn off) with your Burberries well, why not It is blackberries, isn't it gleaming brightly in the streaming rain. Then it was hey for the Local Conjurer (with Chippendale patter), the ...

Published: Wednesday 15 September 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1015 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

Motor Dicta: A Test of Endurance

... weather was very nice ana warm, ana the sun shone pleasantly mosf of the time, which added to the charm. Also, though the blackberries and nuts were not ripe, we made mental notes of which were the best spots, for future reference. It was amusing to see ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1922
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1335 | Page: 39 | Tags: Photographs 

Motor Dicta: Ruston-Hornsby Improvements

... collectors of British wild plants, as there is a wonderful variety of British ferns to be found there, besides nuts and blackberries in the autumn. I rather hope to see one day a motor hurdle race, in which colonial type caterpillar- track vehicles, and ...

Published: Wednesday 11 April 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1263 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

Gossip from the Hunting World: A Beaufortshire Budget

... down the valley past Kinoul ton Wood, straight through Earl Manvers's plantation without a check, and got to ground near Blackberry Hill, after quite a sharp fifty minutes' gallop. Kemp's Spinney being blank, a substitute was soon roused in Curate's Gorse ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1174 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs