A Cornish Tale about Our L\u2019il Village by Sal Tregenna.<\/p>\n
Merry Chres\u2019mus by Sal Tregenna (December 1934)
\nWell, me deers, be th\u2019 time you reeds this, us shall be right in the middle o\u2019 Chres\u2019mus, an\u2019 yur\u2019s \u2018opin\u2019 ez \u2018ow twull be a merry Chres\u2019mus vur \u2018ee all, an\u2019 vur mezel\u2019 too! I b\u2019leeve I\u2019m jist \u2018bout reddy vur\u2019t now, th\u2019 puddens be made an\u2019 \u2018angin\u2019 \u2018pon th\u2019 crooks in th\u2019 deery. Th\u2019 Chres\u2019mus cake\u2019s all made an\u2019 dickerated vitty wi\u2019 li\u2019l robins an\u2019 \u201cMerry Chres\u2019mus\u201d an\u2019 all \u2018pon un! Nurse hiced\u2019n vur me theze yur, an\u2019 you would\u2019n knaw\u2019n vrom one o\u2019 they there slap-up ones out o\u2019 a shop. Coarse, \u2018er wanted to do zummin to \u2018elp, an\u2019 I wuz very glad to git out o\u2019 thikky frickin\u2019 ole job. I can make a cake \u2019s\u2019well\u2019s th\u2019 nex\u2019, an\u2019 tho\u2019 I zes it mezel\u2019, I\u2019ve never taasted noane to bait me awn, but I\u2019ll omit I bant no terrable dab wi\u2019 thikky hicin\u2019 job. Coarse, I can put on th\u2019 Margery-pan, an\u2019 th\u2019 sugary hicin\u2019 \u2018pon top o\u2019t, an\u2019 I can steck th\u2019 robins on wi\u2019 eennybody. But tiz puttin\u2019 th\u2019 vinishin\u2019 titches wi\u2019 thikky \u00a0ole hicin\u2019 pump that gits me bait. Willyum Jan bort\u2019n vur me yurs ago, an\u2019 I\u2019ve allus tried to use\u2019n every yur, but zimmin to me, every yur \u2018e gits \u2018arder to andel. I reckon tha\u2019s awin\u2019 to th\u2019 roomaddicks in me vingers. I shell never vurgit th\u2019 vust yur th\u2019 deer boy gi\u2019ed \u2018n to me! Coarse I thort twuz a gran\u2019 catch an\u2019 I wuz jist ez ankshus to use\u2019n ez \u2018e wuz vur me to.
\nMOUNTAINS!
\nWell, thikky yur I\u2019d a\u2019put pink hicin\u2019 \u2018pon top th\u2019 Margery-pan, cuz th\u2019 deer boy zed \u2018e liked pink hicin\u2019. \u201cThere\u2019s a li\u2019l spout there vur\u2019ee to vix on yer pump, Mawther,\u201d zes \u2018e, \u201cwot\u2019ll make writin\u2019, zo you can put on \u201cMerry Chres\u2019mus\u201d wi\u2019 white hicin\u2019 like they do \u2018pon th\u2019 shop cakes. An\u2019 thikky other li\u2019l spout\u2019ll make roses, zo you could put a ring o\u2019 roses round th\u2019 zides o\u2019n, could\u2019n ee?\u201d \u201cIss\u201d zes I, li\u2019l dreemin\u2019 wot I wuz laivin\u2019 mezel\u2019 in vur! \u2018Owzumaver, I raymimber I wuz gain do this yur job one aivmen zo\u2019s \u2018e could zee me do it, zo I got all th\u2019 gear reddy zoon\u2019s tay wuz auver, an\u2019 Vather an\u2019 Willyum Jan wuz there glazin\u2019 like a cupple o\u2019 skule-boys, I allus reckons I should hev Dun a bedder job if I\u2019d bin left mezel, but coare they wanted to zee thikky gadget wurk. An\u2019 purty wurk \u2018e dun, I\u2019ll warn that! I sterted wi\u2019 th\u2019 roses, cuz zum\u2019ow or \u2018nother I wuz a mite dou\u2019tvul \u2018bout th\u2019 writin\u2019. But, bless my days, they wadden no more like roses than I\u2019m like cock-robin! Ames Vather zed, they might hev bin cabbitches vur all th\u2019 odds \u2018e could zee; \u201cWell,\u201d zes Willyum Jan, ankshus to put a peace \u2018pon it, \u201cI reckon it mus\u2019 be cabbitch roses, Vather!\u201d Be th\u2019 time I\u2019d got roun\u2019 thikky blessid cake, ha\u2019f me roses wuz rinnin down auver th\u2019 blessid zides o\u2019n. \u201cLooks to me ez if they\u2019m rambler roses, boy!\u201d zes Vather, an\u2019 \u2018e sterted laffin\u2019 bit to bust. Coarse, that nettled me vitty. Tiz main to laff at a body when they\u2019m tryin\u2019 to do th\u2019r best, an\u2019 like I tould,n I\u2019ll warn \u2018e\u2019d have made a wuss mess o\u2019t izzel\u2019. Zo Vather put on \u2018is \u2018at an\u2019 waint away that quate an\u2019 stand-offish wi\u2019 moast vokes that I\u2019m jist \u2018bout \u2018fraid \u2018er\u2019d spoil th\u2019 ou, but ez \u2018e wuz gain out th\u2019 dore \u2018e hollered back an\u2019 devised me to hev a shot at it wi\u2019 th\u2019 bike pump! Pore ole Willyum Jan, it must hev bin a \u2018ard job vur\u2019n to kip a strait vaace, but \u2018e dun it! An\u2019 \u2018e got auver me to try th\u2019 writin\u2019, too. But I wuz vitty out o\u2019 hart wi\u2019t be that time, an\u2019 when I tried to make\u2019n do a big M vur Merry Chres\u2019mus, the varmint left out a gurt blob like a young mountain! I could zee then twuz all up th\u2019 tree. Vur one thing there wadden rume enuff to git in th\u2019 rest o\u2019 th\u2019 writin\u2019, zo wot I dun in th\u2019 aind, wuz to make dree more mountains an\u2019 steck li\u2019l robins an\u2019 holly \u2018pon \u2018em, an\u2019 they looked very purty arter all.
\nVATHER\u2019S PREPARATIONS
\nBut theze yur, ez I tell\u2019ee, th\u2019 cake\u2019s a regler slap-up one, wi\u2019 writin\u2019 an\u2019 all dun to purfeckshun. An\u2019 Vather an\u2019 Nurse hev \u2018elped to dickerate th\u2019 houze, an\u2019 I deklare us heb\u2019n bin zo smart vur yurs. Vather wanted to knaw las\u2019 night when us wuz gain hev a party, an\u2019 I zed us \u2018ad bedder hev one th\u2019 week arter Chres\u2019mus. Zo then \u2018e axed who us wuz gain \u00a0to ax, an\u2019 I zed, \u201cAn th\u2019 zame one us allus do, I spoase. Ther\u2019ll be Willyum Jan an\u2019 Mary Ann, an\u2019 Missus Trethewey, an th\u2019 deer cheel. (Can\u2019t bleeve it! \u2018E\u2019s two yur ole, an\u2019 you\u2019d hev to travel a brave way to vend anether cheel to bait\u2019n!) Then ther\u2019ll be Jim Snell an\u2019 Ann, an\u2019 Zilas an\u2019 Jane, an\u2019 Bill an\u2019 Mary, bezides ourzels.\u201d \u201cAn\u2019 wot about Missus Newcum?\u201d zes Vather. \u201cBant\u2019ee gain ax \u2018er to cum?\u201d \u201cWell, I dunno what to do \u2018bout it,\u201d zes I. \u201cEr\u2019s party. Bezides, I doant spoase \u2018er\u2019d cum if I axed \u2018er. \u201cWell you can but ax \u00a0\u2018er,\u201d zes Vather, \u201can\u2019 if \u2018er doant cum tiz \u2018er awn vaut. But \u2018twould\u2019n be nayberly to my mine, to hev a party an\u2019 laive th\u2019 pore zawl out o\u2019t.\u201d \u201cAlrite,\u201d zes I. \u201cI\u2019ll ax \u2018er, an\u2019 I \u2018ope if \u2018er do cum \u2018er\u2019ll join in th\u2019 vun wi\u2019 th\u2019 rest, an\u2019 net spoil everything.\u201d Like I zed to Nurse, I could\u2019n abide th\u2019 thorts o\u2019 us hevin\u2019 a rare ole spree in yur, an\u2019 thikky pore zawl zettin\u2019 all be \u2018erzel all droo th\u2019 Chres\u2019mus wi\u2019 never a zawl to zay Peep-bo to, ez th\u2019 zayin\u2019 iz. All the zame I dedden want nobdy zettin\u2019 \u2018pon th\u2019 aidge o\u2019 th\u2019 cheer, lookin\u2019 like a vish out o\u2019 wadder, when th\u2019 party wuz on. Nurse zed \u2018er thort Missus Newcum would be ez lively\u2019s th\u2019 rest if \u2018er ded cum. \u201cEr\u2019ve \u2018ad trubble, pore zawl,\u201d zes she, \u201can\u2019 tiz time vur zumbody to shake \u2018er up a mite, an\u2019 git \u2018er to laff agane.\u201d \u2018Owzumever I axed \u2018er thze mornin\u2019 if \u2018er\u2019d like to cum to th\u2019 party, an\u2019 I tould \u2018er us allus looked vore to a jolly aivmen, an\u2019 I \u2018oped \u2018er\u2019d cum in an\u2019 hev a gude time \u2018long wi\u2019 us. An\u2019 bless\u2019ee \u2018er zimmed vitty titched you, to be axed, an\u2019 \u2018er zed \u2018er\u2019d deerly luv to cum! When I tould Vather \u2018e waint out zumwhare an\u2019 got \u2018old to a gurt buch o\u2019 misseltoe, an\u2019 e\u2019ve bin an\u2019 \u2018itched it up out in th\u2019 passidge! Nurse zes us shell hev to watch Vather thikky aivmen, else \u2018e\u2019ll be out in th\u2019 passidges canoodlin\u2019 wi\u2019 Missus Newcum! \u201cI thort all along \u2018e \u2018ad a zoft spot vur \u2018er.\u201d Zes Nurse, winkin\u2019 \u2018er heye to me. \u201cE\u2019ll hev a zore spot arter I\u2019ve vanished wi\u2019n,\u201d zes I, \u201cif I catches\u2019n up to any o\u2019 is ole vulery. Bezides, \u2018r idden that zoart. \u2018Er\u2019d knack \u2018is haid off if \u2018e tried to kiss \u2018er.\u201d \u201cI dunno zo much about that.\u201d Zes Nurse. \u201c\u2019Bewar o\u2019 th\u2019 widders\u2019 I allus bin tould; an\u2019 generally spaiken\u2019 tiz gude devise!\u201d I\u2019ll tell\u2019ee all \u2018bout th\u2019 party nex\u2019 time I writes, me deers. Zo long, \u2018an yurs wishin\u2019 ee all th\u2019 best vur Chres\u2019mus an\u2019 afterwards.<\/p>\n
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A Cornish Tale about Our L\u2019il Village by Sal Tregenna. Merry Chres\u2019mus by Sal Tregenna (December 1934) Well, me deers, be th\u2019 time you reeds this, us shall be right in the middle o\u2019 Chres\u2019mus, an\u2019 yur\u2019s \u2018opin\u2019 ez \u2018ow twull be a merry Chres\u2019mus vur \u2018ee all, an\u2019 vur mezel\u2019 too! I b\u2019leeve I\u2019m […]<\/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-1056","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\/1056","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=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056\/revisions\/1058"}],"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=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}