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 287 Tag- The tail end of a rump of beef. M.A.C. Tag-worm. Earthworm. See Angleditch. Tailings. The last or refuse ore. Tailors needles. Scandix peden veneris. C. Tail-on-end. Full of expectation. Tail-pipe. To tie a kettle to a dog's tail. Take. A bargain of work in a mine. Take a heave. A. mineral lode is said to "take a heave" when a "fault" has shifted or broken its course. Taken horse or Hoss. See Hoss in the lode. Taking, Great excitement, trouble, or commotion. " Great pity is, he be in such taking. ^^ Spenser in the Shepherd's Calendar. Taking Day. ^^An old custom, about the origin of which history tells us nothing, is still duly observed at Crowan. Annually, on the Sunday evening previous to Praze-an-beeble fair, large numbers of the young folk repair to the parish Church, and, at the conclusion of the service, they hasten to Clowance Park, where still larger crowds assemble, collected chiefly from Leeds- town, Carnhell-green, Nancegollan, Black Kock, and Praze. Here the sterner sex select their partners for the forthcoming fair; and, as it not unfrequently happens that the generous proposals are not accepted, a tussle ensues, to the intense merriment of passing spectators.