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3 is built round the refrain: And shall Trewlawney Trelawny? Die? Then 30 000 Cornish boys will know the reason why!

It had been a folk refrain. Hawker turned it into a poem in 1866. It reentered oral tradition. Cousinjack miners sang it: Then 30,000 underground will know the reason why! At any rate someone who knew the "Trewlawney Ballad" or song, as literature or folksong composed the "Kitten" parody. More on this problem later.