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ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE

... discussion on the rela- tive merits of Horsecy, Finchley, Wanstead, Epping, and Woodford, as suitable places of resort for blackberry gather. ing. At last September came, and the first jaunt took place. We took our dinners with us in our bags, though many ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 949 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A PRODIGIOUS WHALE

... considered -an undoubted proof If oit. - .'LASENTABLE SUPrkSTITrOxN.-A species of blight ti or grub has settled on the blackberry leaves, gnawing them P in a sefpentine manner, so that the dead fibre shows thtoug& thL e remaining green.- It will hardly ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1825
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1147 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY

... swarming with fish. I have been two or three times be- calmed there, and caught cod as big as donkeys and as plenty as blackberries. Upon that infor- mation Captain Rhodes acted. He had often thought of trying it, but it is a lonely place to go to alone ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: News | Words: 656 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

HIGHLAND CLANS

... Mountain Heath . . . Cypress Coud Berrj Bush *..Pine ?? . BoiawpsS Btl 1 Rush . . Deer Gras3 St John's Wort Mountain Ash Blackberry Heath . Red Whortle Berries . . . Rose Buck Berries . . Sea Ware Variegated Boxwood B1ack Tfho'rn Fir Club Moss Eagle's ...

Published: Monday 09 September 1822
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 697 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH

... sant with ears that could catch the concert of the ,ane ing stars, or the spheres' mausic. Albeit Ribbon men are plenty as blackberries, you might offer, thousand pounds for the sight of one, and miss th show. We have not beard what pecuniary aid : Ruthven ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1837
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1286 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC PRESS

... appoint their fiiends to the House of Peors to act as puppets of the Administration, until Peers would be as- plenty as blackberries, and the distinctive cela- racter of an independent gentleman would be a sCommoner. If the House of Poers is a fungus ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1833
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1458 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LONDON

... instant, the first stone of the Mausoleum about to be erected in memory of the late lamented Ducbhss of Rutland, was laid on Blackberry Hill, by his Royal Highness the Duke of York.. The site of the inteuaed.edifice, although but-a short distance from the ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1327 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PROSPECT OF THK SKSSION,

... silenced but if he listens to the charmers, and speak but irresolutely, reasons for delay will come from the Liberals thick as blackberries in autumn. I have no means of divining what the Government mean do, for at present it has made no sign. ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1428 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Provincial Intelligence

... 12th instant, tells the following thrilling tale :- Last fall a woman residing in the vicinity of Worcester was picking, blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, a bright-eyed little fellow of less than a year old. The babe ...

Published: Monday 29 December 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1445 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LEGAL PREFERMENT THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR

... the Whigs are notoriously lucky; and when they are in office, pieces of preferment are sure to fall in as plentifully as blackberries. ‘There is not a single ex-Attorney or ex-Solicitor-General of theirs unprovided for; but poor Sir Frederick Thesiger and ...

Published: Thursday 10 February 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1499 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ORIGIN OF THE PLOT OF GUY MANNERING

... costume has strikingly supported this view.- Critic. MMlUnORIES oF Bo11iiooc-Tho crowning joys were b huttercupping and blackberrying. As soon as the spring warmth brought forth the golden dandolions, and gave a now greenness to the grass in Stcpney churchyard ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1554 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR GREENE, THE AERONAUT

... ate voraciously, and imme- p, diately alter expired. h( On Monday last some boys were amusing v themselves by gathering blackberries in a field A at Barnet, when they discovered a large snake, big with spawn, basking in the sun. One of the S boys, on seeing ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 1821
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1646 | Page: 2 | Tags: News