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Kook, a trial of casting quoits farthest and nearest to the goal, now all but forgotten (Bottrell), wrestling, and kailles, or keels (ninepins), &c. Much beer and
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(spirit that had not paid the duty) were drunk, and, as the St. Just men are proverbially pugnacious, the sports often ended with a free fight. A paragraph in a local paper for November, 1882, described a St. Just feast in those days as
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A hobble, a squabble, and a 'hubbadullion' altogether. Rich and poor still at this season keep open house, and all the young people from St. Just who are in service for many miles around, if they can possibly be spared, go home on the Saturday and stay until the Tuesday morning. A small fair is held in the streets on Monday evening, when the young men are expected to treat their sweethearts liberally, and a great deal of
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Ringing night.