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the whipper-in, who thought the squire had taken 

 leave of his seven senses. 



" Four Parishes, where the meet is, Hes right 

 afore 'ee under the Galver, and the Galver is 

 that git hill up again' the sky theere." 



Whereupon Sir Tudor left the track for 

 the moor lined with the shadows of the 

 Cams. 



Awaiting him at Four Parishes ^ were Squire 

 Tregenna, to whose gun-fire he had been exposed 

 in St Ives Bay, Squire Praed of Trevethoe, 

 a few yeomen, some crofters for the most part 

 fairly mounted, and a promiscuous crowd of men 

 afoot, amongst whom the fiddler's pinched face 

 peeped out between the rough beards of two 

 tall smugglers, and three or four ne'er-do-wells 

 were marked off by their careless slouch from 

 the sturdier forms of half a dozen miners. 



After greetings had been exchanged. Sir 

 Tudor appealed to Jim Curnow of Towednack, 

 whose keenness and knowledge he had already 

 noticed : " Where shall we draw first ? " 



**Try the ground about the Galver," said 

 Curnow, ''if there's a hare left in the country 

 she'll be there." 



So it was decided ; and all moved off to the 



^ A spot marked by a granite post, where the parishes of Gulval, 

 Madron, Morvah, and Zennor meet. 



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