[1] Tiny.
[2] Spriggan, a low kind of fairy.
[3] Brown, withered like a twig.
[4] Hager is Celtic-Cornish for cruel, foul, ugly, etc.
[5] A Tolmen, or Holed Stone, is one of the antiquities of Cornwall,
and many superstitions have been connected with it, such as passing
weakly children through its hole, in the belief they will get stronger.
[6] Saddest.
[7] Yesterday.
[8] Icicle.
[9] To stare hard.
[10] A stone or metal instrument found in tin-mines, and in barrows
of the ancient Celts.
[11] Gymnadenia conopaea.
[12] Pronounced Kenidjack.
[13] Fairies.
[14] Ridge-tiles with knobs, which people in West Cornwall put on
their houses for the Piskeys to dance on.
[15] Sad.
[16] An iron stool.
[17] A coaxing expression, such as 'Do ee dear.'
[18] Mudgeskerry, or skerrymudge, anything grotesque in human shape,
such as a doll.
[19] Dinky, very small.
[20] Skavarnak, long-eared; also a hare.
[21] Pednpaley, a blue-tit; also anything very soft and beautiful,
such as velvet. Literally, a soft-head. The 'd' in this word is silent.
[22] Child.
[23] Miners' pasties.
[24] Back-kitchen.
[25] A very short person.
[26] Lonely.
[27] One who runs very fast.
[28] Disused mines.
[29] Heath.
[30] A hare.
[31] A note of exclamation.
[32] Little child.
[33] Heath.
[34] A fairy's baby.
[35] Very large.
[36] Once upon a time the Cornish believed that his Dark Majesty
was afraid to come into the Cornish land for fear of being put into
a pasty.
[37] Bread and cream sprinkled with treacle.
[38] Legs.
[39] A pasty made of herbs.
[40] Scratch.
[41] Weasel.
[42] A hot oven that has been left to cool a little.
[43] The song-thrush is called the grey-bird in Cornwall.
[44] Their legs.
[45] A very old man.
[46] Games.
[47] Sad.
[48] Mushrooms.
[49] A fairy.