A Real Cornishman
F course we talked about Cornwall quite a lot during my stay with him, and he gave me a bit of advice on how to pick honest-to-goodness 100 per cent. Cornishmen. This is the gist of what he told me. They do not drop their "H’s " like so many of the English folk do. He qualified the remark. howe
ever, by saying that they might put them in where they were not wanted. You can tell which part of the country they hail from by the amount of saffron they put in to their cakes and buns-the futher west the more saffron; and finally he reckoned that no true Cornishman over indulged in alcohol in his own country, adding in parentheses, that if they wanted so to do then they
could cross the Tamar River and make fools of themselves in England-a land apart from Cornwall. The day before leaving we were all taken down the Nundi Droog mine and introduced into the mysteries of gold mining. When we reached the lowest level, refreshments were served to everyone except myself. He soon put me at my ease, by ordering everyone to stay where they were and calling on me to follow him. We climbed down a ladder to a newly made excavation-the very lowest point in the mine, and there if you please, laid out on a box covered with a table napkin was a huge tumbler ‘of Cornish .cider and a Cornish pasty-all for me.- (" Just Interesting People," Major Lampen, 2Y4A, September 18.) '
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 119, 3 October 1941, Page 5
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257A Real Cornishman New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 119, 3 October 1941, Page 5
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