A few years ago the celebration was discontinued; but this provoked such dissatisfaction that it was revived with fresh zest.
The visitor to Helston may see an occasional pixy pot on a roof-ridge of an old house. This is a bulbous ornament, on which the pixies are supposed to dance, and in dancing drop luck on the house below.
Loe Pool is the largest lake in Cornwall; the only other is Dozmare. It is a beautiful sheet of fresh water cut off from the sea by a pebble ridge, which it was wont to overflow, but a culvert has been bored through the rocks to enable the Cober to discharge without, as formerly, rising and inundating the land below Helston.
It is really marvellous to see how the mesembryanthemum flourishes here, throwing up masses of pink and white blossom.
In the neighbourhood it is fondly dreamed that this was the tarn into which Arthur had Excalibur cast.
“On one side lay the ocean, and on one
Lay a great water——”
After the sword had been cast in, hither Arthur was carried by Sir Bedivere.
“To left and right
The bare black cliff clang’d round him, as he based