Table of Contents

[PREFACE.]
[CORNISH FEASTS AND“FEASTEN” CUSTOMS.][1]
[LEGENDS OF PARISHES,ETC.][56]
[Cornwall Stone.][93]
[FAIRIES.][120]
[SUPERSTITIONS:Miners’, Sailors’,Farmers’.][130]
[CHARMS, Etc.][143]
[For Tetters.][149]
[Toothache.][149]
[For a Strain.][150]
[For Ague.][150]
[For Wildfire (Erysipelas).][150]
[CORNISHGAMES.][172]
[Pray, pretty Miss.][174]
[“Friskee, friskee, I was, and Iwas.”][175]
[“Fool, fool, come toSchool.”][176]
[“Scat” (Cornish for“slap”).][177]
[Hole in the Wall.][177]
[Malaga, Malaga Raisins (a forfeit game).][177]
[She Said, and She Said.][178]
[Drop the Handkerchief.][178]
[How Many Miles to Babylon?][179]
[Rules of Contrary.][179]
[Lady Queen Anne.][179]
[Old Witch.][180]
[Ghost at the Well.][182]
[Mother, Mother, may I go out to Play?][182]
[Here I sit on a cold green Bank.][183]
[Joggle along.][184]
[The Jolly Miller,][184]
[Bobby Bingo.][185]
[Weigh the Butter, weigh the Cheese,][185]
[Libbety, libbety, libbety-lat.][186]
[Ship Sail][186]
[Buck shee, buck,][186]
[Accroshay.][187]
[Buckey-how.][187]
[Cutters and Trucklers (Smugglers).][187]
[Marble Playing][187]
[Cock-haw.][188]
[Winky-eye.][188]
[Uppa, Uppa Holye (pronounced oopa, oopa holly).][188]
[Tom Toddy,][189]
[BALLADS,Etc.][190]
[John Dory.][191]
[An Old BalladOn a Duke of Cornwall’s Daughter][192]
[Ye Sexes give ear.][195]
[A Fox went forth.][196]
[Tweedily, Tweedily, Twee (North Cornwall).][197]
[When shall we be Married?][198]
[Sweet Nightingale.][199]
[The Stout Cripple of Cornwall.][200]
[The Baarley Mow (a harvest song).][203]
[The Long Hundred.][205]
[Elicompane.][205]
[Uncle Jan Dory.][205]
[ADDENDA.][207]
[INDEX.][v]