[7] A similar superstition prevails about breakages, and a servant who has had the misfortune to break a valuable piece of china will sometimes smash a common basin or tea-cup to arrest the ill-luck. [↑]
[8] “Pitch a tune,” to give the keynote. [↑]
[9] “Arish mow,” a rick of corn made in the field where it was cut. [↑]
CORNISH GAMES.
Many old games worth recording are still played by Cornish children, out of doors in summer, indoors in winter, and at their numerous school-treats. To those common elsewhere, other names in Cornwall are often given, and different words sung. Some well known thirty-five years ago, now (1890) live only in the memory of those who were children then, or linger in a very fragmentary state in some remote country districts. Such as
“Here come three dukes a-riding.”