Menhardoc: A Story of Cornish Nets and Mines
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Chapter 1. Introduces Will And His Henchman, Josh
_ CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCES WILL AND HIS HENCHMAN, JOSH
"You don‘t know it, Master Will, lad, but Natur‘ couldn‘t ha‘ done no better for you if she‘d tried."
"Why, Josh?"
"Why, lad? There‘s a queshton to ask! Why? Warn‘t you born in Co‘rn‘all, the finest country in all England, and ain‘t you going to grow into a Cornishman, as all old books says is giants, when you‘ve left off being a poor smooth, soft-roed, gallish-looking creatur‘, same as you are now?"
The utterer of these words certainly spoke them, but in a musical, sing-song intonation peculiar to the fishermen of the district. He was a fair, short man, somewhat deformed, one arm being excessively short, seeming little more than a hand projecting from one side of his breast; but this in no wise interfered with his activity as he stood there glittering in the bright morning sunshine on the deck of a Cornish lugger, shaking pilchards out of the dark-brown net into th
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