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    NEWLYK AND ITS FISHWOMEN. 295

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    In down their mi in society company ht trul a prolonged have -with her rivalled chat good . husb Their palace and cottage and in the herself , althoug world , and h for small enj cleanli oyed and

    poor ness , and g neatness y ; and indeed , in any both husband and wife , there was a tone of refinement not met with every day . The man ' s conversamind evi

    tion dentl was y dictated marked his by observations singular intelli . Mr gence . Berryman , and a was thinking a rare miner thin , which for - rather astonished usas we had been told it was a g

    little any but romance fishermen in the to , marriage inhabit Newl , and yn we . graduall There had y -won been the , however confidence detailed , a of the old _coiiple to confide to their historywith a more

    . us , account of Her Majesty ' s coronation . Highly entertaining was it to witness confusion the that old would lady ' s modesty have done during credit this to recital a girl . of Amid sixteen blushes , she con and

    firmed our appeal to her husband , " that surely she must have been the village belle in her youth . " her liedand the

    " Yes , that she was , ma ' am , " good man rep , " her pride thrift of the and town goodness too . , I Her can beauty tell you didn ; she 't interfere was always no famou ways w s for ith _,

    selling " And her how fish came . " you to carry off the prize , " we asked , _" especially

    since The you old didn man ' smiled t belong and to cast Newl a yn proud ? " look towards his wife . " Yon .

    , had that p far lenty and of near lovers the , village hadn't b you elle , Sall had y been ? " and courted then by we gay learnt and how rich _,

    suitorshut that the young miner from St . Ju . de ' s had been preferred , before them all .

    fortune Sally s was ave her the personal only daug and hter mental of a charms Newlyn . At fisherman the earl , y with age no of

    ten she left the village school and took her place behind her mother ' s fish stall in the marketand there till the present time she has day after

    day and year after year , been found . Formerly the fisliwomen had tied a comp over lete the costume earsand of their the tozer own , or of apron which formed the round part black . At beaver our request hat ,

    our old friend drew , from a box the dress of her youth , and exhibiting taken herself lace when in it , she looked was most little p over icturesque twenty . but Sally as ' s her marriage husband had ' s

    work lay p in some distant mines for several years , , the young couple only met from the Saturday till the Monday of each week ; and when

    the husband went off to his labor , the young wife used to take her accustomed place in the market , one of a joint-stock company of ten

    fishwomen . It was shortly after her marriage that the good people of

    Penzanceon some festive occasion , bethought themselves of giving a fete to , the humbler inhabitants of the hamlet adjoining . The

    fishwomen of Newlyn were therefore invited to a grand tea drinking , and marched in procession from their own village to the corn _,

    market at Penzance . Here they were met by the gentlemen of the

    Newlyk And Its Fishwomen. 295

    _NEWLYK AND ITS FISHWOMEN . 295

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/7/