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FAIRIES AND FOLK
OF IRELAND
BY
WILLIAM HENRY FROST
ILLUSTRATED BY SYDNEY RICHMOND BURLEIGH
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1900
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
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To
Jane Grey Allen and Elizabeth Allen
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CONTENTS
I. O'DONOGHUE
II. THE BIG POOR PEOPLE
III. THE LITTLE GOOD PEOPLE
IV. THE CLEVERNESS OF MORTALS
V. THE TIME FOR NAGGENEEN'S PLAN
VI. LITTLE KATHLEEN AND LITTLE TERENCE
VII. A CHAPTER THAT YOU CAN SKIP
VIII. THE STARS IN THE WATER
IX. A YEAR AND A DAY
X. THE IRON CRUCIFIX
XI. THE OLD KING COMES BACK
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"'IS IT TIME?' THE WARRIOR SAID" _Frontispiece_
"THROUGH THE FLYING WATER I SAW THE OLD KING"
"'BLESSED DAYS THERE WERE.' SHE SAID"
"THEY WERE CHANGED INTO FOUR BEAUTIFUL WHITE SWANS"
"WILL YOU HAVE A LIGHT FOR YOUR PIPE, YOUR MAJESTY?"
"I WAS SITTIN' THERE, WID A SPIGGOT OVER ME SHOULDER"
"THE HORSE WAS NOTHING BUT THE BEAM OF A PLOUGH"
"WHERE ARE YOU BOUND IN THAT SHIP?"
"HERE'S THE POPE'S BULL FOR THAT SAME"
"SHE KNEW THAT THERE WERE GOOD PEOPLE HERE"
"'PAT,' SAYS HE, 'BRING ME A PIPE'"
"PLUMP DOWN HE FELL THROUGH THE QUILT"
"AND THEN DONALD WENT HOME"
"THERE'S A BLESSING ON THIS SAME SACK"
"THERE WAS A WOMAN LYING ON A GOLD COUCH"
"HE FORGOT THE PSALM THAT HE HAD BEEN READING"
"HOLD THE SPEAR STRAIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU"
"THE NET WAS PULLED AWAY FROM HIM"
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost
- 2: Which Naggeneen tells of himself
- 3: You conceded your whole case long ago
- 4: Wid the work I was afther doin' all day
- 5: And if we don't pay it we'll be evicted
- 6: By the beautiful Lakes of Killarney
- 7: My father lived by the Lakes of Killarney
- 8: Nobody could be prosperous then
- 9: You can make no butther wid it
- 10: We're told that cats is avil spirits
- 11: But I can't see why goold wouldn't be goold
- 12: But how can we believe in the betther times
- 13: Perhaps Peter had never heard about the children of Lir
- 14: This Druid talked with the wife of Lir for a long time alone
- 15: And Lir and all his people came there
- 16: The word of the Druid came thrue
- 17: We can't wait a thousand years for the betther times
- 18: I will tell you what a rath is
- 19: But now we will go back to the rath
- 20: What for are they lavin' the counthry at all
- 21: It's that divil Naggeneen that's in it
- 22: I don't suppose ye remember me old friend MacCarthy
- 23: Wid a spiggot over me shoulder
- 24: That don't belong to your thribe at all
- 25: Of course but he was only a poor cluricaun Yes
- 26: Turning from Naggeneen to the King of the rath
- 27: Naggeneen looked on and laughed till he could scarcely play
- 28: Cork and Queenstown had rather alarmed the fairies
- 29: These were merrows sea fairies
- 30: For there were only two of the Sullivans
- 31: Just as he used to in his own old rath
- 32: That fairies cannot bear to cross running water
- 33: They have no iron coach in front to pull them
- 34: And another fairy said Your Majesty
- 35: And Naggeneen turned on his heel and walked off
- 36: But they listened as Naggeneen went on
- 37: ' and Guleesh said it after us
- 38: But Guleesh put his back against the door
- 39: And when he saw Guleesh and the girl
- 40: While Guleesh told him the whole story
- 41: 'It's the stupid omadhaun he is
- 42: And Naggeneen took the fiddle and played
- 43: So Naggeneen had to do as he was told
- 44: Often Naggeneen played the fiddle or the pipes for them
- 45: Where's Naggeneen got to at all now
- 46: Rickard the Rake he was called
- 47: Of course we had to send back Rickard
- 48: The one with Naggeneen and the other with the woman
- 49: And what'll come to all of us I dunno
- 50: Mulvey will she sit by the baby till I'm back
- 51: Mulvey with little Kathleen and went with Peter
- 52: Looking sick and thin and weak
- 53: And if you'll have it christened you'll see
- 54: O'Brien first said the word christen
- 55: ' and he cannot be christened again
- 56: I don't say that Kathleen never did any of these things
- 57: Father Duffy had never even seen him
- 58: We left nobody there but Terence
- 59: And Kathleen never cared to hear Terence play
- 60: As long as you are skipping it
- 61: And now she has nothing but meal and husks herself
- 62: When Donald found his ox killed
- 63: Thinking that Donald was still inside it
- 64: And Hudden and Dudden was both drowned
- 65: And these were the words Da Luan
- 66: And they came to where Lusmore lived
- 67: It was a hump on the back that Lusmore had
- 68: And this brings us back to Kathleen
- 69: Every time that Kathleen passed it
- 70: And he plays the fiddle as well as Naggeneen himself
- 71: Kathleen had been to visit Ellen
- 72: Kathleen stood gazing at the boys and girls dancing
- 73: As Kathleen looked down at the water again
- 74: Fairies can be of any size they like
- 75: Kathleen smiled a little at that
- 76: And he looks Kathleen stopped
- 77: But if anybody from outside eats anything here
- 78: Consider this triangle as two triangles
- 79: Terence had come back to where Kathleen was
- 80: Terence had already come back to Kathleen
- 81: And there Kathleen always found Terence
- 82: Where Kathleen had first seen the Good People
- 83: Then John came to believe that Kathleen was dead
- 84: There's banshees only in Ireland
- 85: And show us the very place where Kathleen stood
- 86: And suddenly they saw that she was leading Kathleen
- 87: Kathleen closed her eyes and clasped her hands
- 88: I scarcely know my own monastery
- 89: It was with tears that Finn said good by to Oisin
- 90: The finest that Oisin had ever seen
- 91: ' Oisin could not understand it
- 92: But this was not enough for Oisin
- 93: Oisin told the man where to drive
- 94: The man held the spear as Oisin told him
- 95: But he sat and stared at Kathleen
- 96: Terence had no way of finding her
- 97: Then she turned back toward where Terence had stood
- 98: The next day Kathleen met Terence in the Park
- 99: Terence turned around and walked away
- 100: I have always said that Terence was one of the Good People
- 101: There in the net was the finest salmon he ever saw
- 102: Kathleen could scarcely see how
- 103: O'Brien listened and then she said Kathleen
- 104: O'Brien and Kathleen followed Ellen
- 105: Terence sprang toward a window
- 106: An angry murmur ran around when Naggeneen said this
- 107: Naggeneen turned away from the King
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