' crawlin' and sprawlin' amo'
the couples to get out o' his grips. Ane o' them gat out an' tauld the
maister about it, an' when he cam' down, the melted lead was runnin' aff
the roof o' the house wi' the heat, sae, flingin' to the black thief a
young bit kittlen o' the schule-mistress's, he sank through the floor wi'
an awsome roar. I mysel' have heard the mistress misca'in her man about
offering up the puir thing, baith saul and body, to Baal. But troth, I'm
no clear to speak o' the like o' this at sic a time o' night; sae if your
honour bena for another jug, I'll e'en wus you a gude-night, for it's
wearin' late, an I maun awa' to Skippyfair i' the mornin'."

I assented to this, and quickly lost in sleep the remembrance of all
these tales of the olden times.

"HORSE AND HATTOCK."

The power of the fairies was not confined to unchristened children alone;
it was supposed frequently to be extended to full-grown people,
especially such as in an unlucky hour were devoted to the devil by the
execrations of parents and of masters; or those who were found asleep
under a rock, or on a green hill, belonging to the fairies, after sunset,
or, finally, to those who unwarily joined their orgies. A tradition
existed, during the seventeenth century, concerning an ancestor of the
noble family of Duffers, who, "walking abroad in the fields near to his
own house, was suddenly carried away, and found the next day at Paris, in
the French king's cellar, with a silver cup in his hand. Being brought
into the king's presence, and questioned by him who he was, and how he
came thither, he told his name, his country, and the place of his
residence, and that on such a day of the month, which proved to be the
day immediately preceding, being in the fields, he heard a noise of a
whirlwind, and of voices crying 'Horse and hattock!' (this is the word
which the fairies are said to use when they remove from any place),
whereupon he cried 'Horse and hattock!' also, and was immediately caught
up and transported through the air by the fairies to that place, where,
after he had drunk heartily, he fell asleep, and before he woke the rest
of the company were gone, and had left him in the posture wherein he was
found. It is said the king gave him a cup which was found in his hand,
and dismissed him." The narrator affirms "that the cup was still
preserved, and known by the name of the fairy cup." He adds that Mr.
Steward, tutor to the then Lor