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A Saucer of Milk for Small People at Hayle

A. K. Hamilton Jenkin relates a story within twenty years of his writing, circa 1910 then, of a man living at Hayle:

Within the last twenty years a certain man, living at Hayle, was in the habit of regularly putting out a saucer of milk for the small people before going to bed. The small people, he said, only drank the 'astral' part of the milk, whatever that might be. Apparently the cats drank the rest, and strangely enough one of them which belonged to a friend of the writer became very ill as the result of it.

(Jenkin, Cornwall and the Cornish, pages 253-254.)

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