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] |