Copyright, 1888,
by
D. Lothrop Company.
PRESSWORK BY BERWICK & SMITH, BOSTON.


CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.
WHAT FAIRIES WERE AND WHAT THEY DID [11]

CHAPTER II.
FAIRY RULERS[22]

CHAPTER III.
THE BLACK ELVES[33]

CHAPTER IV.
THE LIGHT ELVES[46]

CHAPTER V.
DEAR BROWNIE[63]

CHAPTER VI.
OTHER HOUSE-HELPERS[79]

CHAPTER VII.
WATER-FOLK[96]

CHAPTER VIII.
MISCHIEF-MAKERS[109]

CHAPTER IX.
PUCK; AND POETS' FAIRIES[123]

CHAPTER X.
CHANGELINGS[133]

CHAPTER XI.
FAIRYLAND[146]

CHAPTER XII.
THE PASSING OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE[159]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The little river-neck of Sweden[Frontis.]
"God speed you, gentlemen!"[16]
The Neapolitan fairy[25]
The elf-monarch who was made court-fool[29]
The Isle of Rügen Dwarfs that give presents to children[31]
The Dwarf that borrowed the silk gown[35]
The Black Dwarfs of Rügen planning mischief[38]
The Troll's children[40]
A Coblynau[42]
"I can't stay any longer!"[45]
An elle-maid of Denmark[48]
Bertha, the White Lady[49]
Some Greek fairies[51]
An elf-traveller[58]
Brownie's delight was to do domestic service[65]
Brownie relishes his bowl of cream[70]
All that Pück demanded[73]
"Wag-at-the-Wa'"[75]
An Irish Cluricaune[84]
Japanese children and Brownies[86]
A little Fir-Darrig[87]
The persistent Kobold of Köpenick[93]
Mer-folk[98]
The old Nix near Ghent[100]
The work of the Nickel[101]
Hob in Hobhole[106]
The Irish Pooka was a horse too[111]
Will o'-the-Wisp[113]
Pisky also chased the farmers' cows[118]
Red Comb was a tyrant[119]
The Welsh Puck[126]
A merry night-wanderer[127]
"By the moon we sport and play"[129]
The elves whose little eyes glow[132]
There was an Irish changeling[137]
"The acorn before the oak have I seen"[139]
She heard a faint voice singing under a leaf[143]
"Ainsel"[144]
Gitto Bach and the fairies[148]
Kaguyahime, the moon-maid[149]
The little hunchback[152]
Taknakanx Kan[156]
"Al was this loud fulfilled of faeries"[161]
Fairy stories[163]
The capture of Skillywidden[165]
Good-bye[171]