In the middle of the night some one heard the Brownie saying to himself, “A nice pair of green trousers and a little brown coat for me. I can come here no more till one of the children of this village travels the world over and finds me first.”
So this strange little creature had to go away. He vanished in the night as any Brownie is sure to do if some one tries to pay him.
And all the good people of Blednock talked of the kind deeds of the little strange man who came one evening into their midst, and they wondered and wondered if he would ever come back to them again.
HOW OLAF BROUGHT THE BROWNIE BACK
Did you ever hear how Olaf, one of the village children, went in search of the Brownie and brought him back to the good people of Blednock?
It came about in this way.
Olaf’s father had often told him of the Brownie that had once lived in the village and had helped all the village people to do their work.
“The little lively thing would come night after night and clean the floor, and scrub the table, and wash the dishes, and keep the whole house as clean as a new pin. But one night he went away and he never came back.”
“Why did he go away, father?” asked Olaf.