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Updated: May 13, 2025
Just folk are well out of their graves, ours will be a braave way up to heaven!" The laugh with which this anecdote was received had scarcely subsided when the upper half of one of the account-house windows opened, and the fine-looking head and shoulders of old Mr Cornish appeared.
Setting-day came being the first Saturday in the month, and no work was done on that day in Botallack, for the men were all above ground to have their "pitches" for the next month fixed, and to receive their wages setting-day being also pay day. Some time before the business of the day commenced, the miners began to assemble in considerable numbers in the neighbourhood of the account-house.
The wages were paid, the men's work for another month was fixed, the cases of difficulty and distress were heard and alleviated, and then the managers and agents wound up the day by dining together in the account-house, the most noteworthy point in the event being the fact that the dinner was eaten off plates made of pure Botallack tin.
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