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THE LITTLE "NECK" IN THE SWEDISH RIVER.]
BROWNIES AND BOGLES
BY LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY
Author of Songs at the Start Goose-Quill Papers The White Sail
_Fifty Illustrations by Edmund H Garrett_
BOSTON D LOTHROP COMPANY FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS
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 Ruegen Dwarfs that give presents to children 31 The Dwarf that borrowed the silk gown 35 The Black Dwarfs of Ruegen 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 Pueck 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 Koepenick 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