Chapters (68)
- PREFACE.
- CORNISH FEASTS AND “FEASTEN” CUSTOMS.
- ‘The Morning-Song.
- LEGENDS OF PARISHES, ETC.
- Cornwall Stone.
- FAIRIES.
- SUPERSTITIONS: Miners’, Sailors’, Farmers’.
- CHARMS, Etc.
- For Tetters.
- Toothache.
- For a Strain.
- For Ague.
- For Wildfire (Erysipelas).
- CORNISH GAMES.
- Pray, pretty Miss.
- “Friskee, friskee, I was, and I was.”
- “Fool, fool, come to School.”
- “Scat” (Cornish for “slap”).
- Hole in the Wall.
- Malaga, Malaga Raisins (a forfeit game).
- She Said, and She Said.
- Drop the Handkerchief.
- How Many Miles to Babylon?
- Rules of Contrary.
- Lady Queen Anne.
- Old Witch.
- Ghost at the Well.
- Mother, Mother, may I go out to Play?
- Here I sit on a cold green Bank.
- Joggle along.
- The Jolly Miller,
- Bobby Bingo.
- Weigh the Butter, weigh the Cheese,
- Libbety, libbety, libbety-lat.
- Ship Sail
- Buck shee, buck,
- Accroshay.
- Buckey-how.
- Cutters and Trucklers (Smugglers).
- Marble Playing
- Cock-haw.
- Winky-eye.
- Uppa, Uppa Holye (pronounced oopa, oopa holly).
- Tom Toddy,
- BALLADS, Etc.
- John Dory.
- An Old Ballad, ON A DUKE OF CORNWALL’S DAUGHTER; WHO AFTER HER MARRIAGE TO A KING OF ALBION, WAS DIVORCED FOR THE SAKE OF A FAVOURITE MISTRESS; AND HER EXEMPLARY REVENGE ON THEM BOTH.
- Ye Sexes give ear.
- A Fox went forth.
- Tweedily, Tweedily, Twee (North Cornwall).
- When shall we be Married?
- Sweet Nightingale.
- The Stout Cripple of Cornwall.
- The Baarley Mow (a harvest song).
- The Long Hundred.
- Elicompane.
- Uncle Jan Dory.
- ADDENDA.
- INDEX.
- Colophon
- Availability
- Metadata
- Catalog entries
- Encoding
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
- Abbreviations
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