Miscellanea.
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Cornish Land-measure.
I do not know whether the following land-measure, which I noted down in Cornwall many years ago, has been recorded anywhere accessible to folklore students :
- 3 yards square = 1 stick..
- 4 sticks = 1 lease.
- 8 score lease = 1 acre.
The present statute acre, however, contains only 6 score lease and some 'teens.
E. Sidney Hartland.
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The Tide.
A very widely-spread belief exists all along the sea-coast of Wales as to the effect the tide has on human life. It is believed that children are born as the tide comes in, and people die as the tide goes out. The late Mr. Noott, of Cardigan, a doctor with a large practice, was firmly persuaded that this was the case, and he ushered hundreds of children into the world in his time and stood beside very many death-beds.
M. E. James.
