Stories and
章节目录
共 99 题- WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY MR. JOSEPH BLIGHT.
- THIRD SERIES.
- PREFACE.
- The poet truly says,—
- CONTENTS.
- LEGENDS OF LADOCK.
- THE PRIZE WRESTLER AND DEMON.
- THE FEATHERED FIEND.
- THE GHOSTS OF KENEGIE.
- LAYING WILD HARRIS’S GHOST.
- CORNISH CASTLES.
- THE HAUNTED LAWYER.
- HALLANTIDE: OR A ST. JUST FEAST FIFTY YEARS AGO.
- MILL STORIES.
- SUPPLEMENTARY TO HALLANTIDE.
- A POOR TINNER’S FEAST.
- AN OLD DROLL ABOUT A POOR TINNER’S FEAST.
- A MADRON FEAST OF FIFTY YEARS AGO.
- ZENNOR HEARTHSIDE STORIES.
- THE SEAMAN’S GHOST.
- THE OLD WOMAN’S GHOST.
- THE MUTTON FEAST AT ST. IVES.
- THE WITCH OF KERROW.
- FAIRIES ON THE EASTERN GREEN.
- THE LAST THREATENED INVASION: COMMOTION AND FALSE ALARM IN THE WEST.
- THE THREE GEESE.
- THE EARL OF STAIRS’ SON.
- FROM PENZANCE TO CARN GALVA: NOTEWORTHY OBJECTS BY THE WAY.
- MADRON.
- On one old tomb may be seen the following matter-of-fact inscription:—
- MADRON WELL.
- MADRON CHAPEL.
- LANYON QUOIT.
- LANYON TOWN PLACE AND HOUSE.
- THE CRICK-STONE.
- In concluding his notice of the Holed-stone of Lanine, he says:—
- MEN SCRYFA (WRITTEN STONE.)
- THE FOUR PARISHES.
- THE GIANT OF CARN GALVA
- DING-DONG, WHEAL MALKIN, AND PUSSER HOSKING’S MOILS.
- THE PENZANCE OF OUR GRANDFATHERS.
- THE OLD MARKET-HOUSE, AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
- THE BATTLE OF ARCHITECTURAL STYLES.
- THE SELF-TAUGHT ARCHITECT OF THE LAND’S END.
- THE BUSTLE OF A MARKET DAY.
- MADAM TREZILLIAN’S HEAD-DRESS.
- THE ANCIENT FISH-WOMEN OF PENZANCE.
- THE SCHOOL-DAYS AND HOME OF PELLEW.
- THE WESTERN APPROACH TO PENZANCE (ALVERTON LANE.)
- THE REV. JAMES BEVAN.
- COUNTRY CLERKS AND COUNTRY CHOIRS.
- OLD CHRISTMAS CAROLS.
- ANCIENT MODE OF CONDUCTING FUNERALS.
- FORMER MEANS OF INFORMATION AMONG THE PEOPLE.
- THE ASTROLOGERS OF THE WEST.
- CONJURORS AND THEIR SPELLS.
- OLD JUSTICE JONES AND CHEAP LABOUR.
- THE VINGOES OF TREVILLE.—THE JUSTICE’S PUNISHMENT.
- PELLEW AND HIS CORNISH CREW.
- THE ANCIENT GAMES OF HURLING AND WRESTLING.
- OLD METHODS OF CONVEYANCE.
- RIDING PILLION.
- POPULAR SONGS OF THE TIMES, MARLBROOK, AND SENTIMENTAL DITTIES.
- The tender Priscilla will treat you to some such touching ballad as—
- Then you may both join in singing the innocent old song of—
- GREEN LANES AND FOOTPATHS.
- PACKSADDLES, OX-BUTTS, AND THE FIRST CARRIAGE.
- GOING TO TOWN ON MARKET DAY.
- PENZANCE IN THE EARLY PART OF THIS CENTURY, &C.
- AN OLD-FASHIONED GREETING.
- LOCAL NICKNAMES.
- CAMBORNE MERRY-GEEKS AND MARKET-JEW CROWS.
- LUDGVAN HURLERS AND GULVAL BULLS.
- MOUSHAL CUT-THROATS AND NEWLYN BUCKAS.
- SANCRAS PIGS AND BURYAN BOARS.
- ST. LEVAN WITCHES AND SENNEN ——.
- SANTUST FUGGANS AND MORVAH CHICK-CHACKS.
- NANCLEDREA RATS AND ZENNOR GOATS.
- TOWEDNACK CUCKOOS AND ST. IVES HAKES.
- A CORNISH DROLL: BETTY TODDY AND HER GOWN.
- THE GHOST-LAYER.
- CORNISH DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO OLD MEN.
- A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GRACEY PENROSE AND MALLY TREVISKY.
- CHRISTMAS CAROLS.
- And the Holy-well, which thus begins:—
- ANCIENT MIDSUMMER CUSTOMS.
- THE “HILLA.”
- THE ANCIENT CORNISH LANGUAGE IN THE COLONIES.
- ACCORDING HOW ET MAY DROP.
- CORNISH WORDS IN USE.
- CORNISH OBSERVANCES WITH REGARD TO THE SUN AND MOON.
- CORNISH CONJURORS’ CHARMS AGAINST WITCHCRAFT.
- Another version says—
- ALL ON ONE SIDE, LIKE SMOOTHY’S WEDDING.
- PISKIES, SPRIGGANS, SMALL PEOPLE, AND KNOCKERS.
- OLD CORNISH WORDS.
- GLOSSARY OF LOCAL WORDS.
- SUBSCRIBERS’ NAMES.
- NOTES