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Ballad of Little Jan (1890)

  • Little Jan
  • Date: June 12, 1890
  • Type: Rhyme
  • Tags: Little Jan

Whilst the games went on, or between the intervals, songs were sung. “I’ll sing’y one,” said Olver, “was a favourite, and were sung to encourage the youngsters.” 1. “I sing of champions bold, That wrestled–not for gold; And all the cry Was ‘Will Trefry,’ That he would win the day. So Will Trefry, huzzah! The […]

Walling, ‘George Borrow, the Man and His Work’ (1908)

  • Abraham Cann Little Jan Polkinghorne
  • Date: June 19, 1908
  • Type: Book
  • Tags: Abraham Cann Little Jan Polkinghorne

We have read of his Cornish father’s prowess in “the art of fisticuffery,” and might certainly have looked for a spirited account of the affair at Bodmin Bridge when the terror of all Plymouth and Devonport was vanquished, and another of the fracas at Menheniot Fair. But we should probably also have had an essay […]

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