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 303 the hounds (the boys) were "at fault" the leader cried out to the missing "fox" in these words, " Uppa, uppa, holye, If you don't speak, My dogs shan't folly (follow)." The first line is Celtic Cornish, u;ppa meaning, in this place, here, and holye, to follow, to come after, to watch. This is a "cry" in two languages, and the only one (except perhaps Ena Meixa? Q-V.) of the kind known to the writer. It is probably very old, and when, long ago, Cornish boys hunted together, some of them perhaps could only speak their native Celtic tongue, while others among them knew both English and Cornish. See Hubba and Hevah, Uprose, or Uprosed. Churched, as with women after childbed. Urge. To retch, or strain in vomiting. Vady. Musty. Damp. (Vaded, gone. Spenser.) Vag-ends. Fag ends, scraps, remnants. Vally. Value, worth, price. Valsen. Fresh water eels. Carew. Vamp. A sock, or short stocking. Vamp. To put a new foot to a stocking. Vamping. A tippler's trick. Tipplers who desire to make the most of one glass of grog, first drink a little, then add some spirit, then sip again, next add some