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... letters w-r-o-n-g, are invariably pronounced WRONG. — To think of curing a disposition for tel- ling white lies by eating blackberries. A western poet has composed ‘The Song of the Dy- ing Horse It is very affecting. A at people say, ‘ Necessity has no law ...

Published: Friday 07 April 1854
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 838 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TWO HEARTILY WELCOMED VEHICLES,

... The appearance of snob a sea of faces is strange. It seemed if the elopes of the hills had been ■trewn with countless blackberries, and the eight of thousands of umbrellas running np, when the tain became heavier, is not often given in lifetime, The ...

Published: Friday 29 June 1894
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 910 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CASTLETOWN

... require some time to accomplish, and the new parliament may but short lived. In three days, when candidates are numerous as blackberries, member must show soma work done, or st least some effort made, before can count being returned again. The defeated rendidstee ...

Published: Friday 19 October 1900
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 854 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Varieties

... interrupted, reproachfully, Yes, and mother', lung comb, too I A LADY wishes to know the best way of marking table linen. Blackberry pie is our choice, although a baby with a gravy dish highly esteemed by many. A DOG is a natural humorist, isn't he? said ...

ROUGH EVERY-DAY MAXIMS

... should parade the street with you arm in arm, else you will lean upon a broken reed—these promises are as plentiful as blackberries, but their fulfilment is indefinitely postponed. Never intrude upon a friend who gives you a general invitation to take ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1841
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 926 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FACETIÆ

... * LEVELLING down’ ng to bed. Tue Journal has seen some white blackberries, | I¥ you want to be lionised, go into the wilds of Africa, ApaM (who is dead now) ‘laughed from early morn till late at Eve.” * VERY good, but rather too pointed,’ as the codfish ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1868
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A YANKEE COURTSHIP

... by her, and clinched the bargain with a kiss—and such a kiss—talk about your sugar—talk about met lasses——talk about yer blackberry jam ou couldn't have gut me to come nigh ‘em, they wou id sll a tasted sour arter that. Ef Sal's daddy hadn't hollered out ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1860
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 960 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Vitritttell

... a match lately—and the respectability the Penninghame curlers so unquestioned, elders and deacour being an pleotiful as blackberries in August—• lily visitor who saw the curlers returning with their brooms, escleimed, Dear me ! the times must be bad ...

THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION OF CAITHNESS AND EDUCATION

... else how comes it that these ninety thousand children go to no school, although schools are as plentiful in the land as blackberries? The compulsory clause is one of the good points in the Lord Advocate’s Bill, and with all deference to those who protest ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1872
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1307 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BERRIEDALE EXCURSION

... clinging to beds to catch the their stakes and stretchi ng their long aims out of their grateful drops aud the currants and blackberries were so thick that th to be prematurely jammed. Everything grows in Me ey seemed in a fair way Kidd's garden but weeds ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1861
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1301 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE DINNER AND AFTER DINNER

... fitting form could have been found than that of a public dinner. Testimonials of all conceivable kinds are as com- | mon as blackberries in June ; and, though it is | pleasant no doubt to carry away with you the good wishes of your friends in some tangible ...

Published: Thursday 21 June 1866
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1305 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF TAIN

... republicans ot the public playground. Then, is such an easy thing to get one of the students of divinity, who are as common blackberries; and, why, he can be both chaplain and tutor—how convenient and re. injectable ! There are, doubtless tions more reasonable ...

Published: Friday 27 May 1842
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1284 | Page: 2 | Tags: none