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 144 CORN 7 WALL bushes, briers, mires, plashes, rivers ; sometimes twenty or thirty lie tugging together in the water, scrambling and scratching for the ball." These customs and sports are only samples, for there are many quaint ideas still held in certain parishes which would almost provide the material for a book by themselves, and are far too numerous to collect together in a sketch like the present. However, enough has perhaps been said to show how the Cornish spirit still lingers in spite of the influx of " foreigners " growing ever greater yearly.