CONTENTS.

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A Dissertation on Fairies,[1]
Nelly the Knocker,[39]
The Three Fools,[42]
Some Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham,[46]
The Tulip Fairies,[54]
The History of Jack and the Giants,[57]
The Fairies’ Cup,[84]
The White Lady,[86]
A Pleasant and Delightful History of Thomas Hickathrift,[89]
The Spectre Coach,[117]
The Baker’s Daughter,[123]
The Fairy Children,[126]
The History of Jack and the Beanstalk,[129]
Johnny Reed’s Cat,[150]
Lame Molly,[156]
The Brown man of the Moors,[159]
How the Cobbler cheated the Devil,[161]
The Tavistock Witch,[165]
The Worm of Lambton,[168]
The Old Woman and the Crooked Sixpence,[174]
The Yorkshire Boggart,[177]
The Duergar,[181]
The Barn Elves,[185]
Legends of King Arthur,[187]
Silky,[192]

A DISSERTATION ON FAIRIES.

BY JOSEPH RITSON, ESQ.

The earliest mention of Fairies is made by Homer, if, that is, his English translator has, in this instance, done him justice:—

“Where round the bed, whence Achelöus springs,
The wat’ry Fairies dance in mazy rings.”

(Iliad, B. xxiv. 617.)