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Our Short Story. A Man of spirit Crushed

... then, bewailing the indignity, in a broken mush, in a garbage He stopped to scrape off his fingers on the edge slit. I can't pick up the ashes, he said at bet. ' l Yon can pick up the box. Re picked up the box. Murphy handed him hi lat. He snatched it ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1902
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1029 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ARTILLERY ()FP IcER POISONED

... statements that the pigs might be of the wild variety, which frequented the streets and lived as sca‘engers on whatever garbage they might pick tip. But the British Cowdul at Mankind had given his assurance that that was not the ease, and that the animals were ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1910
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Vetter to the Editor. CAPNTY CROWS given a few rotes on rooks some time ago, according to promise I now

... even after they are well feathered, although of these they eat little —seldom more than the eyes and the brains. They also pick up young hares, rabbits, &c., but the damage they do to game is mostly in the breeding season. The hoodie is easily trapped ...

Published: Thursday 06 December 1877
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 782 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EAR LSTOIII

... tired borne lazily moved along. The sn.r.elled street scavengers. semi wild and emery dims, no Wager ream shout for such garbage they pick up, for they have all been banished, and though some bare since fend their way back, they are net mach in evidtesee. ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1914
Newspaper: Jedburgh Gazette
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ENGLAND

... years past old mail might have been seen carrying an old bag his shoulders, scraping up odds ami ends from the gutter and garbage from the streets. This man’s home was in London suburb, a wretched room filled with rubbish—old pieces of iron and brass, ...

Published: Thursday 16 May 1878
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 881 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Practical Agriculture

... thing were done it would pay both buyer and seller handsomely. Again, all straw, sticks, &c. which adhere the fleece should picked out before rolling up, these reduce the value to the farmer as well as to the buyer. In particular the tyingup of the fleeces ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1907
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1382 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HOW MOUNT EVEREST TRIUMPHED

... usually thrown into the street, and the only scavengers were the ravens and the cows, which wandered about picking what they could from among the garbage. When the expedition were on the march, a halt had to be called at every village order that visit might ...

Published: Thursday 18 December 1924
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1767 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

mm CHECKING BAD HABITS

... meaning, he will refrain from transgressing and a gentle rebuke will ensure the observance of your wishes. With regard to picking up garbage or food, train him by dropping pieces of meat where will find them. Directly approaches. give the cautionary No.” and ...

Published: Thursday 28 June 1934
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1115 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... turned out of doors to shift for himself a gin-drinking mother at the ripe age seven. I-'or four years managed somehow. picked up garbage here and there like a hound; begged, called cabs, he gathered cigar ends, he stole a whelk off a stand occasionally, ...

Published: Thursday 28 December 1871
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1713 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AMERICA

... but here in this vsst and reeking city, the; filth and putrid garbage, still accumulate, and ten steps from the leading avenum. one may suffocate with the stench, and find difficulty in picking the way through the dirt and mire. In the tenement houses, the ...

Published: Thursday 10 May 1866
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1780 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Foreign Miscellany

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

Published: Thursday 25 October 1866
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2197 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Braw Lads' Gathering GATE OF OVER 10,000. Ten thousand spectators witnessed the sports held at Raid Simms Haugh ..

... meaning, he will refrain from transgressing, and a gentle rebuke will ensure the observance of your wishes. With regard to picking up garbage or food, train him by dropping pieces of meat where be will find them. Directly he approaches, give the cautionary ...

Published: Thursday 05 July 1934
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1504 | Page: 6 | Tags: none