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Lancashire, England

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Preston, Lancashire, England

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18

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POETRY

... And left a golden stain. Hedge-rows are fair (Fringing old lanes-round groen and cotted lones) With hip and haw, the blackberry and sloe; Lovely the moon, Vwith nright glowers everywhere. Sweet the new song of redbroast waltbling low. oc''rOlEfl. The ...

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 ...

Poetry

... forget The least or thy sweet trifles I The window vines that clamber yet, Whose bloom the bee still rifles I The roadside blackberries growing ripe, And in the woods the Indian-pipe? Happy the man who fills his field, Content with rustic labour I Earth does ...

VARIETIES

... Scotland. Tanning.-A Mr. Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out a pa- tent for tanning from the roots, stems, and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring; and, after preparation, lie states, quite equal to oak-bark. During the lust three weeks the ...

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

... with black lace. The front has a half wreath of brown heath, and velvet leaves; in the inside the same flowers mixed with blackberries. Blond cap and green satin strings. A felt-coloured velvet bonnet had the curtain of blue velvet and white lace ; a torsade ...

HINTS TO HOUSEWIVES

... remind any readers that it is very whlolesome, and in cases of dysentery L is most valuable. When you have procured enough blackberries for present table use make syrup, jelly, and jam for the rest. Encourage children in the country to pick them, for in doing ...

VARIETIES

... to be a moighty flue dinner here this evening. Tormmy is fond of sugar, and asked his moother for scone to eat with his blackberries. She refused. He ap. pearen resigned, but added gravely, 1You know, mamnma, 'whatbhappened round the corner? There was ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... stream of life as has been flowing to him through the eyes. There are eyes which give no more admission into them than blackberries; others are liquid and deep wells that men might fall into ; and others are oppressive and devouring, and take too much ...

VARIETIES

... the universal distributian of the slamped letter paper. The O'Connell tribute this year amounted to the sum of £25,000. Blackberry JAlly.-Put the fruit into a Jar, tie paper oer It, and stew In a sauce-pan of boiling! water, or, by putting the jar into ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... consequently, could never cultivate their hedge-sides properly, and were forced to be content is with soles, and hips, and blackberries, and anything else that came handy and by the grace of nature ; never able re to raise a bushel of grain for harvest-time ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... and there are h ldyt, mulitues of bad teachers. Pedantic pedagogues, of in 'sthe Dlr.B~limber cass re As plentiful as blackberries, and ho the mill~horo system of education is still in vogue. Over, a crammed students rarely tarn out well, while those ...

VARIETIES

... suddenly, after oatiug a quuntity of blackberries. He vontied violently after oaitimg thorn, and ;be medical evidence went to show that dei.th was due to convulsios conosequent upon diarrhila naulsed by eating the blackberries. ?? datli is announced of Mr. George ...