ILLUSTRATIONS
| "She beckoned the children to her" | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| "'I have mourned you as dead, my darling,' said he" | [39] |
| "The queen wished to know if he would join them" | [58] |
| "Fergus knew it was the Pooka, the wild horse of the mountains" | [81] |
| "He was very sad, and tired" | [106] |
| "At the sight of him the prince remembered everything" | [137] |
| "Standing before him was the little princess" | [169] |
PREFACE
It comes to me as a very welcome piece of news, and yet a piece of news which I have been long expecting, that a special American edition of Edmund Leamy's Irish fairy tales is about to be published. This, then, will be the third issue of the little book. I venture to predict that it will not be the last; and I fancy the American publisher who has had the judgment to take the matter up will soon be rewarded for his enterprise. For I believe the book to be a little classic in its way, and that it will go on making for itself a place in the libraries of those who understand children, and will hold that place permanently.