A Cornish Tale about Our L\u2019il Village by Sal Tregenna.
\nWell me deers, I deer zay you bin wunderin\u2019 wot hev \u2018appened to pore ole Sal, heb\u2019n \u2018ee? Well I bin ridin\u2019 roun\u2019 ez I\u2019ll tell\u2019ee, an\u2019 you can take me wurd vur\u2019t, me deers, I\u2019ve a\u2019 knawed vur a brave wile that I \u2018as this bloomin\u2019 trip in store, but I never tould \u2018ee, cuz I thort you\u2019d be worried \u2018bout me! Zo, to cut a long tail short, ez th\u2019 zaying iz, I might \u2018s\u2019well tell\u2019ee I bin up to Plymouth, to th\u2019 Horspittle, and \u2018ad a hopperashun. An\u2019 now I spoase you wants to knaw all \u2018bout it, doant \u2018ee? Well, to begin wi\u2019 I waint up there weaaks an\u2019 weaaks ago an zeed one o\u2019 they big doctors up there, an\u2019 \u2018e zed I must cum up an\u2019 hev this yur hopperashun. \u201cwhen hev I got to hev it dun, maister?\u201d sez I. \u201cWell,\u201d sez \u2018e, \u201cyou\u2019ll hev a poast card zend to\u2019ee when you must cum up. You zee you got to wait till us hev got a baid vur\u2019ee.\u201d \u201cLook yur,\u201d zes I, \u201cIf I got to hev it dun I\u2019d rather twuz dun right away! If you heb\u2019n got no baid vur me I\u2019ll go \u2018ome an\u2019 bring up me awn!\u201d Zo the \u2018e purty grizzled, you, an\u2019 \u2018e zed that wadden no gude cuz they \u2018ad\u2019n got np plaace to vix n. Witch I thort wuz a nashun queer thing, in all thikky gurt plaace. \u2018Owzumever,, I \u2018ad to take \u2018is wurd vur\u2019t, an\u2019 I cum away \u2018ome agane, an\u2019 waited vur thikky poast-card. I wuz terrable conzerned \u2018bout wot pore ole Vather an\u2019 Nurse wuz gain do wile I wuz away, but Mary Ann an\u2019 Willyum Jan vixed it alright. Nurse waint up \u2018long wi\u2019 they, an\u2019Vather \u2018ad all \u2018is mait up there, but \u2018e would slaip in \u2018is awn baid, pore ole deer. Ennyway, th\u2019 card cum one Thersday mornin\u2019 an\u2019 \u2018e zed I \u2018ad to be up there be ha\u2019f pas\u2019 leben, an\u2019 I could hev a baid.
\nANYWAY I GOES!
\nI tell\u2019ee there wadden no time to be lost. Nurse \u2018elped me git riddy, an\u2019 zeed I \u2018ad all I wanted packed in me ole pork-mangle, and\u2019 then I zed gudebye to pore \u2018ol Vather an\u2019 away I goes. Twuz a gran\u2019 day I\u2019ll warnthat, an\u2019 I should hev enjoyed thikky ride if it \u2018ad\u2019n bin vur wot wuz waitin\u2019 \u2018tother aind o\u2019n. Still, I got there \u2018zackly ha\u2019f pas\u2019 leben, an in I goes, wi\u2019 me pork-mangle in one \u2018and, an\u2019 thikky poast-card in th\u2019 tother, an\u2019 me heart in me boots! A veller cum vor an\u2019 axed me bizzens an\u2019 I shawed\u2019n th\u2019 card. Then \u2018e tooked me in to a waitin\u2019 rume, an\u2019 arter a vew minnits I \u2018ad to go into anether rume an\u2019 gi\u2019e th\u2019 card to a lady. Then th\u2019 veller tooked me out agane, an\u2019 tould a li\u2019l ginger-haided boy, wi\u2019 buddons all down th\u2019 vrent o\u2019 \u2018is coat like pays in a pod, to take me up to baid! Coarse, I purty glazed to un, an\u2019 I zes, zes I, \u201cI can go to baid be mezel\u2019 young man!\u201d But \u2018e zed th\u2019 boy \u2018ad to carr\u2019 me pork-mangle upsteers, an\u2019 shaw me whare to go. Zo off goes th\u2019 boy an\u2019 me arter\u2019n. When us got up to th\u2019 right ward, ez they calls it, \u2018e put down th\u2019 pork-mangle an\u2019 knacked th\u2019 dore. Out cums a nurse, an\u2019 axed if I wuz th\u2019 new patient, an\u2019 when I zed \u201cIss, my deer,\u201d \u2018er tould me to zit down an\u2019 wait a minnit. Well, in a minnit or two I wuz tooked inside, an\u2019 a haid nurse, wot they caaled a \u2018Sister,\u2019 tould me I wuz gain hev me hooperashun next day, an\u2019 er\u2019 shawed me whare to put me cloas an\u2019 trade, in th\u2019 locker be th\u2019 baid. Then \u2018er tould \u2018em to gi\u2019e me zum denner, an\u2019 in cums a nurse wi\u2019 a plate o\u2019 beef an\u2019 greens an\u2019 mashed taties. I manidged to ait moast o\u2019t, tho\u2019 you may depaind I\u2019d a\u2019lost me happy-tight be that time!
\nANETHER RIDE!
\nArter denner th\u2019 nurse tould me to go an\u2019 hev a bath! I tould er\u2019 I\u2019d \u2018ad one avore I left ome, but \u2018er made me hev anether! \u201cRools iz rools,\u201d zes she, zo I \u2018ad to do ez I wuz tould. Then I \u2018ad to go to baid. Nex\u2019 day I \u2018ad to \u2018go down\u2019 ez they caals it, an\u2019 a vine ole caper twuz to be sure. They there nurses drest me up in white stockin\u2019s an\u2019 white jacket an\u2019 trooowsers, an\u2019 a purty zight I must hev looked! Then they wrapt me up in blankets, an\u2019 in cums two vellers wi\u2019 white jackets an\u2019 haived me out \u2018top an ole thing \u2018pon wheels, an\u2019 \u2018way I goes vur anether ride! Us waint down in an\u2019 ole thing like a gurt ole burd cage, an\u2019 then lonh miles o\u2019 passidges, an\u2019 at las\u2019 they stopt outside a gurt glass dore. I looked to th\u2019 dore, an\u2019 I zeed \u2018Theatre\u2019 \u2018rote up. \u201cYur, whare do \u2018ee reckon you\u2019m takin me, me lads!\u201d zes I; \u201cI bant gain to no theatre, net in this pickle, Ennyway!\u201d \u201cAlrite Ma!\u201d they zed, \u201cyou\u2019m gain hev a vree trip roun\u2019 th\u2019 wurld, now!\u201d An\u2019 in they goes, an\u2019 th\u2019 nex\u2019 thing I knawed wuz I wuz hoisted up top a blessed table, an\u2019 in cums two nurses wi\u2019 white coats on, an\u2019 white nawse-bags! They tied up me haid in a pudden-clath an\u2019 axed me if I wuz alright. \u201cI should\u2019n be yur if I wuz, me deers,\u201d zes I, vur I tell\u2019ee I wuz gittin\u2019 a mite worried be that time. Then in cums a veller wi\u2019 a nawse-bag on, an\u2019 \u2018e put a gurt wallidge o\u2019 cotton-wool auver me vaace, wi\u2019 a \u2018ole vur me nawse to steck droo, an\u2019 then \u2018e squirted a passell o\u2019 ole taade all auver\u2019t an\u2019 I tell\u2019ee twuz \u2018nuff to chuck a witch! I never knawed no more then till I waked up back in baid, zo I \u2018ad one ride I never knawed nort \u2018bout. Coarse, I dedden veel terrable well vur a vew days, an\u2019 no wunder nother, cuz they would\u2019n laive me hev nort to ait vur days. Still, I made up vur that when I sterted, an\u2019 I\u2019m still doin\u2019 me bit that way!
\n\u2018OMEWARDS
\nWell, I mus\u2019 zay one thing, us \u2018ad a gude time together up there, when us wuz gittin bedder. Tiz s\u2019prizin\u2019 wot you finds to laff at even in a plaace like that an\u2019 us used to try to cheer one tother up, an\u2019 \u2018elp pass th\u2019 time away. Th\u2019 nurses up there wuz regler deers, ow\u2019 th\u2019 pore maidens steck it an; kip smilin\u2019, iz more than I can make out. When I\u2019d bin there \u2018bout a vortnight they tould me I could go \u2018ome, zo I wadden long zendin\u2019 wurd to Vather to zend up arter me. Then I \u2018ad anether ride!
\nTh\u2019 Ambulance cum up arter me, from Camelford, an\u2019 I can tell\u2019ee I wuz rum glad to zee Maister Wilkins an\u2019 Maister Treweeks an\u2019 Nurse Cook! They wheeled me out like a cheel in a push-chair if you plaize, an\u2019 brot me \u2018ome. Then they carr\u2019ed me in, an\u2019 Nurse put me to baid agane! An\u2019 now I\u2019m out stalkin\u2019 roun\u2019 a mite agane, still veelin\u2019 th\u2019 defecks o\u2019 all that there ridin\u2019 roun\u2019, but on th\u2019 road to raycovery, thanks be. Pore ole Jane cums in every day an\u2019 \u2018er bin teraable gude to me, but I do b\u2019leeve \u2018er\u2019s jillus cuz I\u2019ve bin droo zummin \u2018er heb\u2019n! When I begins to tell th\u2019 tale, an\u2019 zay \u201cNow, when I \u2018as me hopperashun \u2013\u201c \u2018er\u2019ll zay, \u201cAw doant\u2019ee kip on \u2018bout that Sall, I b\u2019leeve I shall hev to go mezel\u2019 one o\u2019 these days, but when I go twull be very seryous, I can tell\u2019ee!\u201d Zo \u2018er gits th\u2019 last wurd arter all! Well, zo long, me deers; all th\u2019 lates\u2019 agane zoon.<\/p>\n
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A Cornish Tale about Our L\u2019il Village by Sal Tregenna. Well me deers, I deer zay you bin wunderin\u2019 wot hev \u2018appened to pore ole Sal, heb\u2019n \u2018ee? Well I bin ridin\u2019 roun\u2019 ez I\u2019ll tell\u2019ee, an\u2019 you can take me wurd vur\u2019t, me deers, I\u2019ve a\u2019 knawed vur a brave wile that I \u2018as […]<\/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-1059","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\/1059","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=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059\/revisions\/1061"}],"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=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}