. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. t of king among the hake, whippedhim soundly with little rods to teach him better manners, andthen put him back to tell his brothers what he had under-gone. Just such are the relations between Camborne and Redruth.(Camborne men inquire scornfully, Who crowned the- donkey ? and Redruth men remember with contrition an act of jeeringdisloyalty committed on the accession of George the taunt flung at them is that they have all three chocksin their heels. Chocks aje slits; and though I do not re- 3I2 ST. IVES member that I ever saw the heel
. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. t of king among the hake, whippedhim soundly with little rods to teach him better manners, andthen put him back to tell his brothers what he had under-gone. Just such are the relations between Camborne and Redruth.(Camborne men inquire scornfully, Who crowned the- donkey ? and Redruth men remember with contrition an act of jeeringdisloyalty committed on the accession of George the taunt flung at them is that they have all three chocksin their heels. Chocks aje slits; and though I do not re- 3I2 ST. IVES member that I ever saw the heels of a native of Redruth, yet Iincline on general grounds to disbelieve this slander. Yet itbreeds bad blood, so there may be something in it. But this dissertation has brought us near St. Ives; and whenwe climb the hill above the station the whole of the noble baylies spread out at our feet. There is such infinite variety inthese Cornish fishing towns. Here is no huddled hump ofhouses tumbling one over another in a cleft of precipices, but. X %2- St. Ives. a wide bay forming an almost perfect arc, and having on itsleft a sheltered tongue of land, rising to a height at its ex-tremity, thus forming a natural breakwater against west andsouth-west winds, a bay within a bay, a safe anchorage inheavy weather. Round the shelving strand the old townclusters. The ancient church stands there, close to the watersedge, right in the centre of her work, surrounded by a labyrinthof fisher houses, which break away at last into a beach, where xvi: ST. [VES 313 the fishing boats arc hauled up in safety. It is a sweet andsunny place, a harbour full of dear green water, the sand)shores of the wide bay curving round past Phillack andGwithian, past Godrevy Island, where the lighthouse gleamstall and white against a background of blue sea, and SO onpast Portreath and Perranporth to the dim line of grandnorthern (-oast which holds the finest scenery in nothing is grand, hut soft a
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