A Cornish Tale about Our L\u2019il Village by Sal Tregenna.<\/p>\n
Well, me deers, us hev \u2018ad very purty eggzitemint yur theze las\u2019 vew days, auver ole Guy Vox agane! I deer zay I tould\u2019ee las\u2019 yur \u2018ow pore ole P\u2019leeceman Sly wuz \u2018poun th\u2019 tracks o\u2019 th\u2019 youngsters vur puttin\u2019 off zitch a passell o vire-wurks an\u2019 kippin\u2019 up zitch a commoshun all roun\u2019.
\nI thort \u2018e\u2019d be on agane thze yur, an\u2019 when I zeed un up glazin\u2019 in th\u2019 Poast Offiss winder, an\u2019 heyein\u2019 th\u2019 boxes o\u2019 vire-wurks wot Willyun Jan ad a\u2019got vixed in th\u2019 winder. I knawed \u2018e wuz gain be on th\u2019 war-path agane. Net that I \u2018olds wi\u2019 zo mutch baistly ole vire-wurks, mine you. I \u2018ates th\u2019 varmints mezel, an\u2019 I declare a body cant vencher to put the\u2019r nawse outside th\u2019 bleesid dore th\u2019 vust week in November, vur veer you\u2019m gain heb\u2019n blawed off! Like I zed to Willyum Jan, when I zeed\u2019n puttin\u2019 they ole boxes in th\u2019 winder. \u201cThere\u2019s enuff rubbitch there to vrighten th\u2019 Vrench, laive alone us pore zawls. An\u2019 tedden aunly th\u2019 row they makes when they goes off, tiz th\u2019 horrable smill o\u2019 \u2018em, I doant like. \u2018Nuff to chuck a witch, idden it?\u201d
\n\u201cWell, there tiz, Mawther,\u201d zes \u2018e. \u201cBoys wull be boys; an\u2019 boys wull hev vire-wurks! Th\u2019 chaps be makin\u2019 a Guy theze yur; regler booty, too. I heb\u2019n zeed\u2019n, but I yurd \u2018em tellin\u2019 they\u2019m gain hev a bon\u2019vire an\u2019 burn\u2019n \u2018pon th\u2019 green Vriday night.\u201d
\nVATHER\u2019S ZECRET.
\nVather cum in Thersday aivmen laffin\u2019 like a piskey. \u2018E\u2019d a\u2019bin up Vules corner hevin\u2019 a yarn wi\u2019 th\u2019 chaps, an\u2019 \u2018e\u2019d zeed th\u2019 Guy, zo vur\u2019s \u2018e wuz got. \u201cWell, wots th\u2019 joke, Vather?\u201d I axed. \u201cYou might s\u2019well tell us, then we can laff too.\u201d \u201cWait till tomorrah aivmen,\u201d zes Vather. \u201cYou\u2019ll be abel to go up green an\u2019 zee\u2019n vur yerzel\u2019 then.\u201d Jane wuz there , an\u2019 \u2018e would\u2019n zay no more, but arter us waint to baid thikky night, Vather sterted to grizzle agane. I wuz tryin\u2019 to go to slaip, an\u2019 I veeled vext ez a snake when \u2018e kipt on tiddlin\u2019 an\u2019 laffin\u2019 an shakin\u2019 th\u2019 baid. \u201cDo\u2019ee be\u2019ave yerzel\u2019, an\u2019 go to slaip!\u201d snaps I. \u201cI declare you\u2019m wuss thanb a skule boy!\u201d But \u2018e\u2019d got a regler laffin\u2019 vit on, ez th\u2019 zayin\u2019 iz, an\u2019 there wadden no stoppin\u2019 o\u2019n. in th\u2019 aind o\u2019t \u2018e \u2018ad me grizzlin\u2019 too, tho\u2019 I dedden knaw no more\u2019n a vule wot \u2018e wuz laffin\u2019 vur. \u2018Owzumever, I got it out o\u2019n, in th\u2019 aind. It \u2018peers \u2018e\u2019d bin up taalkin\u2019 wi\u2019 th\u2019 chaps an\u2019 they\u2019d tooked\u2019n into Zammy Brown\u2019s linney an\u2019 left\u2019n zee this yur gran\u2019 Guy. \u2018E tould me \u2018e never zeed zitch a gurt ole himage in all \u2018is borned days. \u201cThey\u2019ve made\u2019n out \u2018o hess\u2019an trade an\u2019 vulled\u2019n up wi\u2019 dowse,\u201d zes \u2018e, \u201can\u2019 they\u2019ve made a gran\u2019 vaace to\u2019n, an\u2019 put on a hosseshair miss-tash an\u2019 all, an\u2019 I dekalre tiz th\u2019 livin\u2019 himmage o\u2019n!\u201d \u201cWho?\u201d zes I. \u201cWotever be\u2019ee tellin\u2019 \u2018bout?\u201d But I could\u2019n git no more out o\u2019n. \u201cWait till tomorrah night,\u201d wuz all \u2018e\u2019d zay, an\u2019 wi\u2019 that I \u2018ad to be contain. I could\u2019n go to slaip vur a very purty time, vur puzzlin\u2019 me haid auver thikky ole Guy, an\u2019 tryin\u2019 to think who \u2018ad a miss-tash like hosses-hair. Nex\u2019 day Jane cum in agane, an\u2019 \u2018er\u2019d bin up village an\u2019 nawsed out a thing or two. \u201cI yurd tell they\u2019ve made a gurt himage,\u201d zes she, \u201can\u2019 \u2018e\u2019s gain be all drest up theze aivmen an\u2019 then th\u2019 chaps be gain wheel\u2019n vore to green \u2018pon a \u2018and-kert an\u2019 they\u2019m gain hev a bon-vire, an\u2019 all zoarts o\u2019t. Be\u2019ee gain up to zee wot\u2019s on, Sal?\u201d Vust I zed No, but Jane kipt on wi\u2019 me till I zed I\u2019d go. Arter all, I \u2018ate to veel I\u2019m gain to miss ort, doant you? Bezides, I knawed be th\u2019 way Vather wuz teckled th\u2019 night avore, that there wuz zummin\u2019 speshal on.
\nTH\u2019 ZECRET OUT!
\nWell, arter tay me an\u2019 Jane drest ourzel\u2019s up an\u2019 waint away up to village. Vather wuz go zoon\u2019s ever \u2018e\u2019d a\u2019 galloped down \u2018is zupper, an\u2019 like I zed to Nurse, twuz a murcy us \u2018ad stewed tripe an \u2018onyuns vur zupper thikky night, instid o\u2019 \u2018errin\u2019s, else I deklare \u2018e\u2019d hev chucked \u2018izzel\u2019 to de\u2019th wi\u2019 th\u2019 bones! When me an\u2019 Jane got up outside Zammy Brown\u2019s plaace, there wuz a regler crowd there, an\u2019 I knawed they wuz waitin\u2019 vur th\u2019 Guy to be brot out. I spotted Vather an\u2019 Zilas there, like a pare o\u2019 skule boys, right in th\u2019 vrent row. \u201cThey bant gain miss nort,\u201d zes Jane. \u201cI wish us \u2018ad cum up a mite earlier, too.\u201d All to once there wuz a purty ole scuffle in th\u2019 linney, an\u2019 then out cums vower chaps pushin\u2019 a \u2018and-kert, an\u2019 carr\u2019in\u2019 lanturns. Zimmin to me jist all th\u2019 chaps \u2018ad lights, vlash-lights, bike-lights, or lanturns, zo twuz like a torch-light percesshun gain along. I could\u2019n zee mutch o\u2019 th\u2019 himmage, cuz th\u2019 crowd wuz all roun\u2019 th\u2019 \u2018and-kert ex us moved along, but I ded zee that \u2018e wuz all drest up, an\u2019 I zeed th\u2019 veet o\u2019n \u2018angin\u2019 out auver th\u2019 \u2018and-kert, an\u2019 I zed to Jane, \u201cThey heb\u2019n vorgot to put veet to\u2019n, Ennyway! They looks to me to be \u2018bout a yerd long.\u201d
\nI two or dree minits us wuz vore to th\u2019 green, an\u2019 vire-wurks wuz gain off like cannons everywhere. Th\u2019 chaps \u2018ad brot a vew\u2019vaggots o\u2019 hood, an\u2019 zum vuzz an\u2019 starw, an\u2019 they wuz bizzy perpairin\u2019 it to burn th\u2019 ole himmage. \u201cCum on Jane,\u201d zes I, \u201cle\u2019s shove vore an\u2019 hev a look at\u2019n avore \u2018e\u2019s put in th\u2019 vire.\u201d Be th\u2019 time us got vore they\u2019d a\u2019got un propped up in th\u2019 \u2018and-kert an\u2019 I didden hev to take no zecond look to\u2019n to knaw who twuz spoased to be! They\u2019s dressed\u2019n up in an ole blew zoot wi\u2019 brass buddeons, an\u2019 they\u2019d even put a pare o\u2019 white gloves on th\u2019 \u2018ands o\u2019n! An\u2019 like Vather zed, they\u2019d manidged zum \u2018ow to catch th\u2019 likeness in th\u2019 vaace o\u2019n, I\u2019m beggared if they \u2018ad\u2019n. Bezides, like I zed, you need aunly to look at th\u2019 veet o\u2019n to knaw who twuz spaosed to be!
\nTH\u2019 TABLES TERNED!
\nJist ez th\u2019 chaps \u2018ad got th\u2019 vire lighted, I yurd a titter rin roun\u2019 th\u2019 crowd an\u2019 then I zeed P\u2019leeceman Sly cum staalkin\u2019 \u2018cross th\u2019 green. \u201cLor\u2019 Massy\u201d zes I, \u201cth\u2019 vat\u2019s in th\u2019 vire now!\u201d Ole Sly walked right vore to th\u2019 vire, an\u2019 spoak to th\u2019 chaps, an\u2019 then \u2018e cum vore to th\u2019 \u2018and-kert, an\u2019 looked to th\u2019 himmage! I could\u2019n move, vur the crowd wuz pushin\u2019 too \u2018ard behind us, but I doant mind tellin\u2019 \u2018ee I wished mezel\u2019 out o\u2019t at thikky minnit. I wuz waitin\u2019 vur Sly to spaik, an\u2019 zo wuz all th\u2019 rest, but when \u2018e ded spaik I reckon they all veeled a mite vlat. \u201cWell, well,\u201d zes \u2018e, grinnin\u2019 like a boy. \u201cI mus\u2019 zay tha\u2019s a purty bit o\u2019 wurk, boys! I dedden knaw you \u2018ad it in \u2018ee, that I dedden!\u201d Then \u2018e terned roun\u2019 to Zammy Brown, ez if \u2018e knawed \u2018e wuz th\u2019 ring-laider. Coarse twuz Zammy\u2019s boy Jan, wot got in trubble wi\u2019 Sly las\u2019 yur vur putting\u2019 off vire wurks in voke\u2019s dore-plaaces; zo I deer zay tha\u2019s why Sly guessed who wuz to th\u2019 botoom o\u2019t. \u201cI\u2019ll laive it to you, Zammy Brown,\u201d zes \u2018e \u201cto zee that yer bonvire iz put out vitty when you\u2019ve vanished burni\u2019 yer Guy. I\u2019m off dooty now, an\u2019 I\u2019m off to baid, boys, Hev a gude time, be all mains, but doant\u2019ee go roun\u2019 annoyin\u2019 vokes in the\u2019r awn houses. There\u2019s plainty o\u2019 rume yur vur all yer vire-wurks idden there?\u201d An\u2019 wi\u2019 a \u201cGudenight, boys\u201d\u201d \u2018e wuz gone, an\u2019 I b\u2019leeve jist all th\u2019 chaps hollered \u201cGude night\u201d to\u2019n. Zammy Brown cum vore to th\u2019 \u2018and-kert an\u2019 picked up th\u2019 Guy, an\u2019 put\u2019n on th\u2019 vire, an\u2019 all th\u2019 rest stood zilent an\u2019 waatched\u2019n burn. Arter a vew minnits Zammy zed \u201cThere boys, e\u2019ll zoon be gone, and I wish now I never made\u2019n. There idden mutch vun in it, arter all.\u201d \u201cWot \u2018bout th\u2019 zong us practissed Zammy?\u201d zumbody hollered, \u201cIf I yur ennybody begin to zing that I\u2019ll put\u2019n in th\u2019 vire longzide th\u2019 Guy,\u201d zes Zammy. Vather told me artewurds that they\u2019d a\u2019 planned to dance roun\u2019 th\u2019 bonvire an\u2019 zing, while th\u2019 Guy wuz burnin\u2019. Th\u2019 zong wuz one they\u2019d \u2018atched up between \u2018em an\u2019 th\u2019 chorus o\u2019t wuz all \u2018bout \u201cburnin; th\u2019 Guy, an kippin it Sly.\u201d
\nWhen th\u2019 vire burned out Zammy Brown zed, \u201cLooky yur, boys; I veel us hev gone a mite too vur, an\u2019 I\u2019d like to tell\u2019n I\u2019m zorry. Arter all, \u2018e got \u2018is dooty to do, an\u2019 Young Jan axed vur wot \u2018e got las\u2019 yur no dou\u2019t\u201d An\u2019 then, avore I knawd wot wuz \u2018appenin\u2019 away goes th\u2019 crowd vore to P\u2019leeceman Sly\u2019s dore, an\u2019 they wuz all zingin\u2019 \u201cVur e\u2019s a jolly gude veller,\u201d wi\u2019 all the\u2019r h\u2019arts. An\u2019 ole Sly opened th\u2019 baidrume winder an\u2019 zed, \u201cThank\u2019ee boys and Gude-night. An\u2019 if you disturb me enny more to-night I\u2019ll show you all my \u2018eel.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A Cornish Tale about Our L\u2019il Village by Sal Tregenna. Well, me deers, us hev \u2018ad very purty eggzitemint yur theze las\u2019 vew days, auver ole Guy Vox agane! I deer zay I tould\u2019ee las\u2019 yur \u2018ow pore ole P\u2019leeceman Sly wuz \u2018poun th\u2019 tracks o\u2019 th\u2019 youngsters vur puttin\u2019 off zitch a passell o […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1020,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1045","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1045\/revisions\/1047"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}