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TWO BOYS SHOT FOR THROWING AT A PLUM-TREE

... afternoon, two Irish ly twelve and ten years, went into the coun to gather blackberries. wi as faras Warle igorn, where the prisoner resides, and began gathering blackberries from a hedge which separated his garden from the :meadow the boys were in. berts ...

Published: Thursday 12 October 1865
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE DEVIL'S BERRIES

... THE DEVIL'S BERRIES. Blackberries are the objects of ,41 strange superstition in some parts of the country. There is an ancient belief that blackberries must be gathered before September 30th, on which date every year the Devil leaves his mark on the ...

THE SCOTTISH PINE

... wild. On Nature’s bulwarks grey ; His plume waves the northern breeze, The shadows round him play. The bracken fern and blackberry Spring about his feet, While heath-crowned rocks, or hoary crags, O'er head oft nearly meet. The storms that blow so fierce ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1881
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A PARADISE FOR VEGETARIANS

... cress, tomatoes, mushrooms, ero-piunt, and scores other vegetables arc cultivated and lw-»^ W S b*rrieB, raspberries, blackberries, goosemes, wbortielierries, currants, and other berries flourish, scarcely day in the year when strawberries cannot market ...

Published: Thursday 16 December 1875
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MR. WELLER IN THE CHARACTER OF A GRANDFATHER

... infants as ever heerd tell on, includin' them aswos kivered over the robin redbreasts arter they'd committed sooicide with blackberries, there never any like that 'ere little Tony. He's alvays a playin' with a quart pot that boy is ! To see hi a sittin' down ...

Published: Friday 03 July 1840
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A SnMUaU lor riovon

... shaded foliage is in ne condition for pressing. mong the best leaves for pressing are those of the oak, the copper beech, the blackberry, and the yellow bracken. The best and simplest way of pressing leaves is to place them between sheets of fresh blotting ...

Published: Friday 21 October 1910
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 307 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COLLISION ON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY

... and riages could not be denied that when they had serambled out of the ear- 6 shockin fi ance. Black eyes, noes, ful as. blackberries, bumps and bruises, were ae plenti- and it was only those who had the gvod fortune to insure their bodies betlore started ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1851
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AT SHETLAND

... says—‘What a multitude people heard who had turned the corner of ninety years ! and the children are as thick as bees or blackberries. Ingram,* the Free Church minister Unst, the most northerly parish Her Majesty’s British dominions, in whose pulpit I preached ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1875
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHAPTHI KaaoPly

... and blue bells, Is their various seasons. Is August all Ow pion is aflame with will rose and woodbine, and Is October the blackberries, needy se large& grapes, hang In dusters on the Web& Ittleseiduded spat is pew two miles front even human hslllatioe , ...

Published: Friday 25 February 1887
Newspaper: Caithness Courier
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEATH OF A SOMNAMBULIST

... quest. On another occasion, he eluded the vigilance of his parents about midnight, and went a long distance in search of blackberry bushes. His parents, who now reside Rossendal*, afterwards came to live in Shepherd Street, Bury, and there, on one occasion ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1876
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

lATHEIZEAS the Comm Council. of the Comm or COITHNISS received a Representation from the Paling COUNOIL of the ..

... County Council hereby intimate that it is proposed to take on lease (First), the Northern Portion of the Field known as BLACKBERRY QUOYS, part of the Farm of Freswick Mains, belonging to Edwin Sinclair Alexander Sinclair, Esquire of Freaffick, and tenanted ...

THE SCOTTISH METROPOLIS

... circumstances, but it may turn out that one such institution in the city w«s enough. As for public balls, these are thick blackberries on the bush. An amount of attraction attaches the very fine hall the Oddfellows, Forrest Hoad, which accommodates concerts ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1875
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 6 | Tags: none