CONTENTS

THE FAIRIES’ STORY HOUR
“’Tis the Hour of Fairy Ban and Spell,”Joseph Rodman Drake[2]
Come! Come! to the Fairies’ Story Hour![3]
PART ONE
FAIRY-LORE AND ELFIN LEGENDS
AROUND! AROUND! IN FAIRY RINGS!
“In the Glowing Light of a Summer Sky,” William Jones[8]
Adventures of Robin Goodfellow, Old English[9]
The Potato Supper, Irish[15]
The Milk-White Calf and the Fairy Ring, Irish[20]
The Wood-Lady, Bohemian[26]
The Dance of the Fairies, From The Maydes Metamorphosis (1600)[32]
ELFIN MOUNDS AND FAIRY HILLS
“’Tis the Midnight Hour”[34]
Monday! Tuesday! Irish[35]
The Greedy Old Man, Cornish[39]
Legend of Bottle Hill, Irish[44]
The Brown Dwarf, John Greenleaf Whittier[53]
LITTLE MEN AND TREASURES OF GOLD
“And will you come away, my Lad?”[62]
The Boy who found the Pots of Gold, Irish[63]
The Ragweed, Irish[66]
The Bad Boy and the Leprechaun, Irish[70]
Tom and the Knockers, Cornish[73]
The Knockers’ Diamonds, Cornish[77]
Skillywidden, Cornish[79]
The Leprechaun, or Fairy Shoemaker, William Allingham[84]
GLAD LITTLE, SAD LITTLE, BAD LITTLE ELVES
“Saint Francis and Saint Benedict,” William Cartwright (1635?)[90]
Little Redcap, Irish[91]
The Curmudgeon’s Skin, Irish[97]
Judy and the Fairy Cat, Irish[103]
The Boggart, English[105]
Ownself, English[107]
The Sick-Bed Elves, Chinese[109]
How Peeping Kate was Piskey-Led, Cornish[111]
One-Eyed Prying Joan’s Tale, Cornish[121]
The Fairy Folk, William Allingham[128]
FAIRY SERVANTS IN THE HOUSE
“Their Dwellings be,” From the Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635)[132]
The Fairy’s Servants, Basque[133]
The Pixies, English[138]
The Brownie of Blednoch, Scottish[142]
Elsa and the Ten Elves, Swedish[145]
Piskey Fine! and Piskey Gay! Cornish[149]
The Fairy Wedding, Swedish[151]
The Tomts, Swedish[155]
Song of the Elfin Miller, Allan Cunningham[157]
FAYS OF WATER, WOOD, AND MEADOW
“Over Hill, over Dale,” Shakespeare[160]
Kintaro the Golden Boy, Japanese[161]
The Flower Fairies, Chinese[166]
The Fairy Island, Cornish[169]
The Four-Leaved Clover, Cornish[171]
The Gillie Dhu, Scottish[174]
How Kahukura learned to make Nets, New Zealand[176]
Echo, the Cave Fairy, From the Island of Mangaia[179]
The Isles of the Sea Fairies, Mary Howitt[182]
AWAY! AWAY! TO FAIRYLAND
“But we that live in Fairyland,” Old Ballad[188]
The Magic Ferns, Cornish[189]
The Smith and the Fairies, Scottish[194]
The Coal-Black Steed, English[198]
The Girl who was stolen by the Fairies, Irish[201]
The Girl who danced with the Fairies, Irish[203]
Elidore and the Golden Ball, Welsh[206]
At the Court of Fairyland,
Selections from Ben Jonson, Michael Drayton, Joseph Rodman Drake,
Shakespeare, and Old Ballads		[209]
PART TWO
FAIRY STORIES
FAIRY GODMOTHERS AND WONDERFUL GIFTS
“Rap! Rap! Rap!”[220]
Cinderella, Charles Perrault[221]
Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Charles Perrault[231]
Prince Chéri, Madame Le Prince de Beaumont[239]
Toads and Diamonds, Charles Perrault[254]
Blanche and Rose, Madame Le Prince de Beaumont[258]
The Enchanted Watch, Jean Macé[264]
Queen Mab, Thomas Hood[276]
FAIRY ADVENTURES
“A Little Knight and Little Maid,” Lucy Larcom[280]
Fairy Do-Nothing and Giant Snap-’Em-Up, Catherine Sinclair[281]
Timothy Tuttle and the Little Imps, Dr. John Todd[290]
Butterfly’s Diamond, Lydia Maria Child[304]
Little Niebla, W. H. Hudson[312]
Little Tiny, Hans Christian Andersen[319]
The Immortal Fountain, Lydia Maria Child[337]
The Story of Childe Charity, Frances Browne[348]
The Shining Child and the Wicked Mouche, Adapted[361]
Mabel on Midsummer Day, Mary Howitt[400]
FAREWELL! FAREWELL! DEAR FAIRIES
“Oh! where do Fairies hide their Heads?” Thomas Haynes Bayly[412]
The Fairies’ Passage, James Clarence Mangan[413]
Old Winter’s Fairyland, Anonymous[418]
Subject Index for Story-tellers[423]

ILLUSTRATIONS

“This is Mab, the Mistress Fairy”[Frontispiece]
“Dermod gazed at them in wonder”[18]
“She saw a whole troop of Spriggans holding an Elfin Fair”[118]
“Childe Charity came out and asked the old woman to take her share of the supper”[350]