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Title: Fairies and Folk of Ireland
Author: William Henry Frost
Illustrator: Sydney Richmond Burleigh
Release Date: July 13, 2006 [EBook #18824]
Language: English
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FAIRIES AND FOLK
OF IRELAND
BY
WILLIAM HENRY FROST
ILLUSTRATED BY SYDNEY RICHMOND BURLEIGH
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1900
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
* * * * *
To
Jane Grey Allen and Elizabeth Allen
* * * * *
CONTENTS
I. O'DONOGHUE
II. THE BIG POOR PEOPLE
III. THE LITTLE GOOD PEOPLE
IV. THE CLEVERNESS OF MORTALS
V. THE TIME FOR NAGGENEEN'S PLAN
VI. LITTLE KATHLEEN AND LITTLE TERENCE
VII. A CHAPTER THAT YOU CAN SKIP
VIII. THE STARS IN THE WATER
IX. A YEAR AND A DAY
X. THE IRON CRUCIFIX
XI. THE OLD KING COMES BACK
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"'IS IT TIME?' THE WARRIOR SAID" _Frontispiece_
"THROUGH THE FLYING WATER I SAW THE OLD KING"
"'BLESSED DAYS THERE WERE.' SHE SAID"
"THEY WERE CHANGED INTO FOUR BEAUTIFUL WHITE SWANS"
"WILL YOU HAVE A LIGHT FOR YOUR PIPE, YOUR MAJESTY?"
"I WAS SITTIN' THERE, WID A SPIGGOT OVER ME SHOULDER"
"THE HORSE WAS NOTHING BUT THE BEAM OF A PLOUGH"
"WHERE ARE YOU BOUND IN THAT SHIP?"
"HERE'S THE POPE'S BULL FOR THAT SAME"
"SHE KNEW THAT THERE WERE GOOD PEOPLE HERE"
"'PAT,' SAYS HE, 'BRING ME A PIPE'"
"PLUMP DOWN HE FELL THRO
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