The “Three Man’s Song” was the precursor of the more familiar “Round.”
It should be sung in this manner: The first man sings, alone, the
opening line of each verse and as he proceeds with the second, the
second man starts to sing the first. In like manner the third man joins
in the harmony with the first line when the first man has reached the
third and the second man the second.
In order that all three singers should complete each verse at the same
time, it is necessary for the first man to repeat the first and the
second lines, and the second man to repeat the first line.
[Illustration: _St. Catherine’s Castle, Fowey._]
[Illustration: Map of central England and Wales, the area covered by
the Great Western Railway. Title reads: G. W. R. The line to legend
land. Various places mentioned in the book are identified: Trereen
Castle (Page 28), Pengersick (Page 36), Rame Head (Page 40), Mevagissey
(Page 32), Camborne (Page 44), Newquay (Page 48), Fowey (Page 52).]
[Illustration: Miniature of the front cover Illustration of Volume
Four: Herne the Hunter]