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THE VALLEY OF THE WASHBURN

... our sandwich case, and enjoy a repast, with ripe, I luscious blackberries as dessert, washed down with the cold, sparkling water of the stream. The sandwich case is soon filled with blackberries, and the journey resumed, along Lindley mill-race, where ferns ...

Published: Friday 18 October 1878
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4645 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE POPE'S IRISH BRIGADE

... were incited to join, not only by religious motives, h; but by the promise of commissions, which were to be H plentiful as blackberries, and marshal's batons, which it rwere to be in every man's knapsack. True, that they el went to fight, not against heathens ...

Published: Tuesday 31 July 1860
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1480 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL LABOUR IN YORKSHIRE

... cousioasly and gracefully exnlauatory, thalt the Northern girls, who at the same tmi weore knitt ng army socks, pufting up blackberry brandy and prayers in one breath; singing war songs and dropping tears as they packed boxes for the .- Sanitary, will be ...

Published: Tuesday 18 August 1885
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1459 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SCULCOATES BOARD OF GUARDIANS AND THE BOROUGH MAGISTRATES

... was oveir in February. We have for weeks been living on cucumbers, green peas, new potatoes, summner squashes, and our blackberries being just gone, we are finishing up the last of the currants, raspberries, plums, &c., while we are waiting for the peaches ...

Published: Friday 16 June 1865
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 1863 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... had, they must ?? hold their tongues; wwhile murders, accidents, escapes and ad- ventures, instead of beinig plenty as blackberries, would be as y rare as the cuckoo in June. .I must live, exclaimed a starv- eing poet to his patron. * I id, not see ...

Published: Friday 30 October 1846
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 1674 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT

... by a strong breezefrom the surrounding country. It iiiav be stated that one portion of the planta- tion was covered with blackberry bushes, wel illed with fruit, which were cultivated by the ese werO destroyed. y THIRTEEN. 'HORSES BURNT TO DEATH. Early ...

Published: Tuesday 02 August 1887
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1545 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ROBBERY OF CROWN JEWELS

... which attacked him. The victim of the onslaught was a farmer residing in a country town in America. He had left home on a blackberry.picking expedition, and was engaged in this occupation in the midst of a wood when suddenly he detected millions of large ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1885
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 1849 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FRANCE, AUSTRIA, AND ITALY

... countries, without coming to actual blows. When strength is equal and hate is common, pretexts are picked up as plentifully as blackberries. So will it be in Venetia. War will be continually threatening, and most men will be glad enough when it is over and the ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 1860
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1712 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE CLUE TO THE OFFICIOUSNESS OF THE RURAL POLICE

... impression of yesterday, I think I th can givo the reasons why the lad was so harshly dealt with. R, The proprietor of the blackberries, it seems, had offered a reward of LI1 for the discovery of any person found in the Sa3 wood at Middleton, and the writer ...

Published: Friday 10 October 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1607 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

YOUR VOTE AND INTEREST!

... previous to the contest was carefully treasured with a view to further use. Bloody noses and black eyes were plentiful as blackberries: there was a fight at every street corner, and a heated argument on every door-step. Even the very children took sides ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1600 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

THE WAKEFIELD HELL

... family how- e ever, hr got about his ears from this course, I rather surprised him. He found that bugs were as plentif ul as blackberries; and that they seemed to rehi4b the hides of the souperior classes as well as l thew )of the swinish multitude. To such ...

WORKING MEN'S HOUSES

... have in abundance. Cottages ran up in rows without a pretence of regard to either decency or health are as plentiful as blackberries. But where are the better kind of houses ? A society wvas founded some time ago which has done valuable service in this ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1625 | Page: 2 | Tags: News