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230 THE CORNWALL COAST can tell us ; yet in this district these things are common, and utterly disregarded by the country folk. They have forgotten even the tales of the giants who used to play " bob-buttons " with them. He w^ho wanders among these undated relics and wild stony moorlands may easily go astray ; the cairns and tors are very like each other, and paths are few. Sometimes also there are blinding mists or fierce winds heavy with rain ; at other times a glamour of loveliness steals over the desolate wastes, sunsets wrap them in atmospheric glory, or dreamy noons brood over them with deep calm. Between Zennor and St. Ives is the parish of Towednack, where they tried to build a hedge around the cuckoo. It is just a symbol of our craving to keep the springtime ever with us ; the hedge was not high enough, and the cuckoo flew out at the top. The name of the hamlet was formerly Towynnok, which evidently embodies a dedication to St. Winnoc — probably the same saint as we find at Landewednack. The low, sturdy little tower has no pinnacles ; when the folk were building it the devil came each night and pulled them down. But this parish does not touch the sea at all. Off the coast are the rocks known as the Carracks, beyond which we pass Penynys and Hor Point, and so reach the " Island " of St. Ives.