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Nairnshire Telegraph and General Advertiser for the Northern Counties

SEAGULLS

... fo,, at any ether season have been heeded by them. ihe following, evidently dropped by • shucked gull, who reads the was picked up on the beach this ill•rnir g. the anniversary of the .• Not • gull was beard, not a feather was stirred, a mystical note ...

THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND

... mend shoes both for himself and the family, or beat and kuock hemp or flax, or pick and stamp apples or crabs for cider or vinegar, or else grind malt on the querns, pick candles, rushes, or do some husbandly office till it be fully eight o’clock. Then ...

grtofi

... the door, found him upstairs chained the leg staple in the wall. was in the habit of wandering about picking up herring bones from the gutters, garbage, and other refuse from ash-piis, and devouring them greedily. The body presented one of the most harrowing ...

GENERAL NEWS

... solicited charity in the street. She lived on crusts bread, the refuse of cabbages and other vegetables, and such like garbage that she picked up from dirt-heaps. Last week she fell down from weakness from want of food while passing the door of the concierge ...

THE NAIRNSHIRE TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1856

... beaten with the most unnatural and brutal severity. The poor liitle fellow had been often seen by the neighbours picking up and eating garbage to satisfy his hunger, and even going to the pigs’-trongh, and devouring eagerly such refuse as the pigs had not ...