After an absence of twenty years, a visitor to hie native village in Cornwall met a phild who was crying. Inquiring lier trouble, the visitor was told by the child that she had "clunked her nicey" —that is, she had swallowed her sweet (toffee-or chocolate). Later the vistor happened upon the local pot-house politician with his leg in a sling. The old fellow confessed that while drunk he had "stancked 'pon a, wilkey''—fallen and sprained his ankle. He had, in fact, stepped on a frog, the Cornish name for which is "wilkey."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 23
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