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old man brought his infant grandchild into the room. All was 

 now peaceful and in its ordinary state, save that there was " a 

 smudder" in the place, just like an " end " when dynamite has 

 been exploded in it. On another occasion the old man was spun 

 round and round, like a teetotum, by invisible power, and this 

 invisible power opened the court-door three or four times, to the 

 amazement and terror of a passing miner. My other informant 

 tells me that once, when suffering from tooth-ache, he went 

 downstairs, about three in the morning, and was sitting by the 

 fire, when an unseen arm, to his unutterable horror, clasped him 

 round the back, and drove him in alarm from the room. A voice, 

 at intervals of about a week, sounded in his ears in the early 

 morning. In the third week this sound took definite articulation, 

 and called the name " John." He turned to his wife and said "I 

 am sure that your brother John has had something happen to 

 him, I will ask William about it to-day." When he met him, 

 he asked him whether he had heard from his brother, " Yes," 

 he said, " I have had a letter to-day to say that he is dead." 



In conclusion, I may say that all are not able to hear or 

 see anything occult in this house, for shortly after Christmas, 

 many years ago, I passed the house purposely at midnight, and 

 remained outside for some time, but nothing mysterious or weird 

 occurred. 



VI.— Folk-rhymes. 



From a small collection of folk-rhymes, I select the two 

 following as being of some interest. The first is the chant of a 

 Q-wennap bal-maiden, and contains several words peculiar to her 



trade. 



" I can buddly, and I can rocky, 



And I can walk like a man, 

 I can looby,* and shaky 



And please the old Jan." 



The other rhyme is called the pudding-bag, and may, per- 

 haps, be worth preserving. 



Pudding bag, pudding bag, was too full, 



I jumped in a roaring bull ; 



Roaring bull was too fat, 



I jumped in a gentleman's hat ; 



*Tossing, called " Tozan " ia some parts of Cornwall. 



