An', wust of all, when 'a got to Zennor everywan who knaw'd un was dead an' gone! 'Es faather an' mawther was up in the churchyard, an' 'a hadn' got a single friend in the world!
So because 'a was so owld an' terrible palchy, an' hadn' got nowan to taake no int'rest in un, through never havin' took no int'rest in nowan, they was obliged to put un up to Maddern Union; an' there 'a lingered, owld an' toatlish,[K] 'tell 'a died at laast a lone owld man.
FOOTNOTES:
[B] Prying.
[C] The mermaid, with glass and comb and with the tail of a fish, which is carved on a bench-end in Zennor church.
[D] Ancient hut-dwellings.
[E] Barrows.
[F] Cromlech. The term is derived from the legendary belief that these rude megalithic monuments were used by the giants when playing quoits.
[G] A little bit, in the least.
[H] In Cornwall witch is both masculine and feminine. The black witch exercises the most potent magic; the white witch being vastly inferior in power.