Footnotes
[5] The Irish peasant calls his attendance at the confessional "going to his duty."
[6] The fish has really a red spot on its side.
THE FAIRY THORN.
An Ulster Ballad.
SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON.
"Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning-wheel;
For your father's on the hill, and your mother is asleep;
Come up above the crags, and we'll dance a highland-reel
Around the fairy thorn on the steep."
At Anna Grace's door 'twas thus the maidens cried,
Three merry maidens fair in kirtles of the green;
And Anna laid the rock and the weary wheel aside,
The fairest of the four, I ween.