Brownies and Bogles
s of his fanciful Midsummer Night's Dream. This glen used to be crammed with goblins. There, and in many like-named Welsh places, Puck's pranks were well-remembered by old inhabitants. T
until he got to the brink of a precipice. Then the little wretch sprang over the chasm, shouted with wicked glee, blew out his lantern, and left the startled traveller to reach home as
sh Bogle, and the Boggart in Yorkshire; and even one nursery-tale title of Bugaboo. Oddest of all, the name Pug, which we give now to an amusing race of small dogs, is an ever
le ran
port of Natur
weet enjoyme
her purpose,
al of a most
e with his grim little cousins, the Lyktgubhe and the Kludde. Glorious ol
ems but a dr
ng like a r
t of a bus
se to de
us, makes
nights out
stick in m
th laughte
"swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow," was the first to make Puck into a hous
acteristic of a Brownie. William Browne, born in Tavistock, in the county
and he
ds that had not sw
if by maide
ater was not b
read no table
e nips from toe
d who had perfo
ter-pail bade
ELSH
rms what we h
with Mab
latter in
fire up
ere the s
s, and cleanse
oathsome to
house: who
inch her b
has this charming fairy song, which takes us out to the
n we sport
ight begin
e, the dew
little ur
as the l
, and thre
o we, and a
NIGHT-
at their revels! Here is another
es that dance
ttle changelin
ioned, Mopso, Joculo, and Prisio have something
you, what mig
: My name
orry I canno
ou, sir, what m
My name i
s were a family of great note in Fai
I were a chimne
you pretty little
a
name is Little
fright all the little wenches in the country out of their be
ling elfin-ladies' names, which are ple
p and Drop
ip and Ski
r sovereign
al maids-
b and Pinc
uick, and
it, and W
that wai
ON WE SPOR
oral drama of Amyntas, of his wee folk orchard-robbing; whos
ries blith
ions not
onshine mos
ard frisk a
ts are alwa
sses much
s are nice
olen, be o
the world
ime for orch
were scarce
for steali
once sported yet lovelier Dryads and Naiads. These dainty British Greeks are very small indeed: Titania orders them to make war on the rear-mice, and make
brooks, standing
ck and blue. The shepherd, in the Winter's Tale, takes the baby Perdita for
old poets, and only English poets at that; but the foreign fairies are no less cha
elves
ittle e
rayton, Lyly, and supreme Shakespeare, give us. Keats was drawn to them, though he has left us but sweet and brief proof of it; and Thomas Hood, of all gentle modern poets, has done most for the "small foresters and gay." In prose the fairies are "famoused" east and west; for which they may sing their loudest ca
HOSE LITTLE