| THE FAIRIES’ STORY HOUR |
| “’Tis the Hour of Fairy Ban and Spell,” Joseph Rodman Drake | 2 |
| Come! Come! to the Fairies’ Story Hour! | 3 |
| PART ONE |
| FAIRY-LORE AND ELFIN LEGENDS |
| AROUND! AROUND! IN FAIRY RINGS! |
| “In the Glowing Light of a Summer Sky,” William Jones | 8 |
| Adventures of Robin Goodfellow, Old English | 9 |
| The Potato Supper, Irish | 15 |
| The Milk-White Calf and the Fairy Ring, Irish | 20 |
| The Wood-Lady, Bohemian | 26 |
| The Dance of the Fairies, From The Maydes Metamorphosis (1600) | 32 |
| ELFIN MOUNDS AND FAIRY HILLS |
| “’Tis the Midnight Hour” | 34 |
| Monday! Tuesday! Irish | 35 |
| The Greedy Old Man, Cornish | 39 |
| Legend of Bottle Hill, Irish | 44 |
| The Brown Dwarf, John Greenleaf Whittier | 53 |
| LITTLE MEN AND TREASURES OF GOLD |
| “And will you come away, my Lad?” | 62 |
| The Boy who found the Pots of Gold, Irish | 63 |
| The Ragweed, Irish | 66 |
| The Bad Boy and the Leprechaun, Irish | 70 |
| Tom and the Knockers, Cornish | 73 |
| The Knockers’ Diamonds, Cornish | 77 |
| Skillywidden, Cornish | 79 |
| The Leprechaun, or Fairy Shoemaker, William Allingham | 84 |
| GLAD LITTLE, SAD LITTLE, BAD LITTLE ELVES |
| “Saint Francis and Saint Benedict,” William Cartwright (1635?) | 90 |
| Little Redcap, Irish | 91 |
| The Curmudgeon’s Skin, Irish | 97 |
| Judy and the Fairy Cat, Irish | 103 |
| The Boggart, English | 105 |
| Ownself, English | 107 |
| The Sick-Bed Elves, Chinese | 109 |
| How Peeping Kate was Piskey-Led, Cornish | 111 |
| One-Eyed Prying Joan’s Tale, Cornish | 121 |
| The Fairy Folk, William Allingham | 128 |
| FAIRY SERVANTS IN THE HOUSE |
| “Their Dwellings be,” From the Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635) | 132 |
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