STORIES AND FOLK-LORE OF WEST CORNWALL BY WILLIAM BOTTRELL. “The proper study of mankind is man.”—Pope. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY MR. JOSEPH BLIGHT. THIRD SERIES. PENZANCE PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY F. RODDA. 1880. (Right of Translation reserved.) PREFACE. The publication of the present work has been attended by circumstances of pathetic interest. It is to be feared that it will be the last literary testament of its author, who, before the whole was completed, was stricken by a severe stroke of paralysis, which has incapacitated him from holding a pen in his hand. He must, therefore, claim the indulgence of the critics and the public in this third series of Cornish tales. The whole subject of fol…
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