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 28 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY. are often seen by old garden walla. Upping-stook. Heps, a hatch ; a short half-<loory often seen in country shops. The lower half is kept shut, the top open. There is generalljr a bell fastened to it to give notice of a customer. When a person has been brought before his superiors and remanded, he is figuratively said ** to have been made to ride the heps/* ** More tongue than teeth ; she had better keep a heps before her mouth.*' Het-up (heat-up), v, to cast in one's teeth. "She het it up to bim that he was drunk last night."

Hev-a, a word shouted through St. Ives's streets when there are pilchards in the bay. Hewer, Huer, a person that makes signals from the cliffs to the fishermen in their boats, to let them know in what direction the pilchards lie. Hewing, part, making signals from the cliffs to the boats. There is generally a shed on the highest cliff to shelter the hewer, called the hewing-house or bacon-house (beacon-house). Hicking congh, a dry, hacking cough. Hick-mal, Hekky-mal, the blue titmouse. ' Ekky-mowl, F. W. P. J., M. B. Hile, Aile, lie, the beard of barley.

Hilla, the nightmare.

Hippety - hoppety, adv. "He goes hippety-hoppety" (walks unevenly).

Hitch, V, to sew lightly. " Don't put too many stitches; hitch it together.** Hitcher, the chape of a buckle. See Aitch. Hobban, Hoggan, a cake made of flour and raisins, often eaten by miners for dinner. Some- times called Figgy Hoggaa or Fuggan. A pork pasty. Hobban, or Hoggan -bag, a miners' dinner-ba^. A piece of meat baked or boiled in paste is sometimes so called. Hobble, V, to tie together the front and hind leg of an animal to keep it from straying. Hobbler, an unlicensed pilot; a man who tows in a vessel with ropes. Two or three generally own a boat between them. Hobble, the share each hobbler gets when they bring in a vessel. Hobby-hone Day, a festival held in Padstow on May 1st. A hobby-horse is carried through the streets to a pool called Traitor's Pool, a quai-ter of a mile out of the town. Here it is supposed to drink; the head is dipped in the water, which is freely sprinkled over the specta- tors. The procession returns home sine;ing a song to comme- morate the tradition that the French having landed in the bay, mistook a party of mum- mers in red cloaKS f ^r soldiers, and hastily fled to their boats and rowed away. Hoddy-man-doddy, an overgrown stupid boy ; a simpleton. Hog, Hogget, a two-year-old ewe. Hog lamb, a sheep under twelve months. Hoity-toity, a see-saw. "She's a hoity-toity thing ** (capricious, haughty). Hole to grass, phr. working a vein of metal to the surface. Hollibnbber. ** A man who, un- attached to the works, makes a living out of the refuse of the