Tales and Novels Volume 2: Popular Tales

Some years ago a lad of the name of William Jervas or as he was called from his lameness Lame Jervas whose business it was to tend the horses in one of the Cornwall tin-mines was missing. He was left one night in a little hut at one end of the mine where he always slept; but in the morning he could no where be found; and this his sudden disappearance gave rise to a number of strange and ridiculous stories among the miners.