Estefanella Hirigaray.
The Fairy in the House.
There was once upon a time a gentleman and lady. And the lady was spinning one evening. There came to her a fairy, and they could not get rid of her; and they gave her every evening some ham to eat, and at last they got very tired of their fairy.
One day the lady said to her husband:
“I cannot bear this fairy; I wish I could drive her away.”
And the husband plots to dress himself up in his wife’s clothes just as if it was she, and he does so. The wife goes to bed, and the husband remains in the kitchen alone, and the fairy comes as usual. And the husband was spinning. The fairy says to him:
“Good-day, madam.”
“The same to you too; sit down.”
“Before you made chirin, chirin, but now you make firgilun, fargalun.”[15]