Another evil sprite was the Clobher-ceann, "a jolly, red-faced, drunken little fellow," always "found astride of a wine-butt" singing and drinking from a full tankard in a hard drinker's cellar, and bound by his appearance to bring its owner to speedy ruin.

'Sprite' is a trivial and distorted misformation of 'spirit'; and can only, I apprehend, be used with some propriety (at any rate, in modern poetry) in a more or less bantering sense.

The corrected folio gives its authority to the lines of the song, "Foot it featly here and there, And, sweet sprites, the burden bear," which stands so in Hanmer, and, indeed is the usually received arrangement of the song.

Well, in what humour must a poor mountain sprite be, who only comes up every hundred years to see how things go forward here on the earth!

We shall demonstrate, contrary to the opinion of Mr. Spencer, Mr. Huxley, and even Mr. Tylor, that the Supreme Being, and, in one case at least, the casual sprites of savage faith, are active moral influences.