Brownies and Bogles

ves varied greatly. And they did; still their morals had nothing to do with it, nor pride, nor patriotism, nor descent, nor education; nor w

it had helped to make the grown-up nation who lived under it, that, every time, were the "brownies and bogles." Where the land was rocky and grim, and subject to wild storms and sudden darknesses, the

apolitan had a tooth for fruits and macaroni; the Chinese was ceremonious and stern; a true Proven?al fée was as vain as a peacock,

e up your mind that the fairies thereabouts were fellows worth knowing; that you would have needed all your wit and pluck to ge

d now call angels. But in the Germanic colonies, from very old days, fairy-lore was finely developed, and we count up tribe on tribe of necks, nixies, stromkarls and mermaids, who were water-sprites; of bergm?nnchen (little men of the mountain), and lovely wild

attentively; if it had occurred to the knowing scholar-monks to keep diaries of elfin doings, as it would have done had th

POLITAN

h any but the wee ones. And as these were settled most thickly in the Teutonic, Celtic and Cymric countries, we wil

l the future, and call down disease and storm, but they stood in awe of the weakest mortal because of his superior strength and size; they came to him to borrow food and medicine, and even to ask the loan of his house for their revels. They rendered themselves inv

ables, or general synods. Each set of them got along, independent of the rest. Once in a while a mine-man would live alone with his wife, pegging awa

elect a President and have him as honest, and steady, and sound-hearted as needs be. Bu

ns, each small agreeing community had its own chief, the tallest of his race, who was no chief at all, mind you, to the fairy neighbors a mile east. Th

good advice, called him Brother-in-law very fondly, and comforted him with the music of his harp. But Goldemar, though the knight loved him and could touch and feel him, was unseen. He was like a wreath of blue smoke, or a fragment of moonlight, and you coul

tle majesties were quarrelsome as cock-sparrows. The elf-monarch Laur?n was once conquered by Theodoric; and because he had been treacherous in wa

CH WHO WAS MA

ay-day from dawn until sunset. Gwyn once carried her off from Gwythyr, her true lord; and both lovers were so furious and cruel against each other that blessed King Arthur condemned them to wage bitter

fsmiths, who has a look of the Elfbrowns, we will immediately kidnap him from his fond parents, and add him to the family he resembles. Now that might make wailing and confu

WARVES THAT GIVE PR

ey wore little snuff-brown jackets and a brown cap (which made them invisible, and allowed them to pass through the smallest keyhole), with one wee silver bell at its peak, not to be lost for any money. But they did some roguish things; and children who fell into their hands had to serve them for fifty years!

ierces the soil, affectionate air-elves take it in charge. Therefore we borrow a hint from the grass; and after first going down among the swarthy f