hey got into their ships,
and sailed away.

Well, I suppose, before they were married, Tom got some man, like Pat
Mara of Tomenine, to learn him the "principles of politeness,"
fluxions, gunnery, and fortification, decimal fractions, practice, and
the rule of three direct, the way he'd be able to keep up a
conversation with the royal family. Whether he ever lost his time
learning them sciences, I'm not sure, but it's as sure as fate that his
mother never more saw any want till the end of her days.

MAN OR WOMAN BOY OR GIRL THAT READS WHAT FOLLOWS 3 TIMES SHALL FALL
ASLEEP AN HUNDRED YEARS

JOHN D. BATTEN DREW THIS AUG. 20TH, 1801 GOOD-NIGHT

NOTES AND REFERENCES

It may be as well to give the reader some account of the enormous
extent of the Celtic folk-tales in existence. I reckon these to extend
to 2000, though only about 250 are in print. The former number exceeds
that known in France, Italy, Germany, and Russia, where collection has
been most active, and is only exceeded by the MS. collection of Finnish
folk-tales at Helsingfors, said to exceed 12,000. As will be seen, this
superiority of the Celts is due to the phenomenal and patriotic
activity of one man, the late J. F. Campbell, of Islay, whose _Popular
Tales_ and MS. collections (partly described by Mr. Alfred Nutt in
_Folk-Lore_, i. 369-83) contain references to no less than 1281 tales
(many of them, of course, variants and scraps). Celtic folk-tales,
while more numerous, are also the oldest of the tales of modern
European races; some of them--_e.g._, "Connla," in the present
selection, occurring in the oldest Irish vellums. They include (1)
fairy tales properly so-called--_i.e._, tales or anecdotes _about_
fairies, hobgoblins, &c., told as natural occurrences; (2) hero-tales,
stories of adventure told of national or mythical heroes; (3)
folk-tales proper, describing marvellous adventures of otherwise
unknown heroes, in which there is a defined plot and supernatural
characters (speaking animals, giants, dwarfs, &c.); and finally (4)
drolls, comic anecdotes of feats of stupidity or cunning.

The collection of Celtic folk-tales began in IRELAND as early as 1825,
with T. Crofton Croker's _Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of
Ireland_. This contained some 38 anecdotes of the first class mentioned
above, anecdotes showing the belief of the Irish peasantry in the
existence of fairies, gnomes, goblins, and the like. The Grimms did
Croker the hono