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The moormen never say "_the_ Dart," but always "Dart." "Dart came down
last night--he is very full this morning." The _cry_ of the river is the
name given to that louder sound which rises toward nightfall. Cranmere
Pool, the source of the Dart, is a place of punishment for unhappy
spirits. They may frequently be heard wailing in the morasses there.
Compare Leyden _Scenes of Infancy_, pp. 315, 316., &c.
* * * * *
Wescote (_View of Devonshire_: Exeter, 1845 (reprint), p. 348.) has a
curious story of the Tamar and Torridge. It is worth comparing with a
local rhyme given by Chambers, p. 26.: "Annan, Tweed, and Clyde," &c.
* * * * *
"When Haldon hath a hat
Kenton may beware a skat."
This often quoted saying is curiously illustrated by a passage from the
romance of Sir Gawaya and the Grene Knicht (Madden's _Sir Gawaya_, p.
77.):
"Mist muged on the mor, malt on the mountes,
_Uch hille hadde a hatte_, a myst-hakel huge."
In the note on this passage Sir Frederick quotes two proverbs like the
Devonshire one above. They are, however, well known, and there is no
lack of similar sayings.
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"When Plymouth was a furzy down,
Plympton was a borough town."
* * * * *
When Brutus of Troy landed at Totnes, he gave the town its name; thus,--
"Here I sit, and here I rest,
And this town shall be called Totnes."
* * * * *
"Crocker, Cruwys, and Coplestone,
When the Conqueror came, were found at home."
* * * * *
"Who on the Sabbath pares his horn,
'Twere better for him he had never been born."
"At toto Thori die hominibus ungues secare minime licuit."
--Finn Magnusen, _Lex. Edd._, s.v. _Thor_.
In the district of Bohnsland, in Sweden, in the middle of the eighteenth
century, it was not thought proper to fell wood on the afternoon of
Thursday. (Id.)
* * * * *
"Many slones [sloes], many groans,
Many nits [nuts], many pits."
* * * * *
"When the aspen leaves are no bigger than your nail,
Is the time to look out for truff and peel."
* * * * *{512}
_Margaret's Flood_.--Heavy rain is expected about the time of St.
Margaret's day (July 20th). It is called "Margaret's flood."
* * * * *
"Widdecombe folks are picking their geese,
Faster, faster, faster."
A saying among the parishes of the south coast during a snow-storm.
'Widdecombe' is "Widdecombe in the Dartmoors."
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