Legend Land, Vol. 2 / Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by the Great Western Railway

by G. Basil Barham

The reference to "Un Ursula Bird" in the second verse of the Day Song has a traditional reference to an old dame who, it is said, led a party of Cornish women in red cloaks, headed by the Hobby Horse, in procession round the cliffs in days gone by and so frightened away a hostile French ship, whose

captain mistook the women for soldiers. A similar story is told of Fishguard in South Wales in Legend Land Leaflet No. 11.

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Unite! All unite! It's now all unite,

For Summer is a-come in today;

And whither we are going it's all now unite,

In the merry morning of May!