"It seems like a fairy tale," said Mary when she was told about it, "and I don't know just what to say.

Do you think it's a silly dragon in a fairy story?

[Footnote: A proverb, found also in Herondas iii, 76: apparently fairy-land, the land of Nowhere.]

Consequently, though he made quite a companion of the fine bright boy, and was delighted to see him so fond of reading his fairy-books, and was never tired of hearing him say my name is Norval, or hearing him sing his songs about Young May Moons is beaming love, and When he as adores thee has left but the name, and that; still he kept the command over the child, and the child was a child, and it's to be wished more of 'em was.

It has no more of enchantment to him than the "magic fairy palace" of the ballet has to a scene-shifter.

It would always seem to little Hans like a dream of fairyland and she would be remembered as his fairy godmother.

The girl looked a good deal like a fairy princess.

Since the time of Cinderella the First there have been many similar instances in real life of the persecution of youth by family injustice and cruelty, and no case more strikingly similar than that of Miss Caroline Brandenburg Gann, whose youthful career was one of monotonous hardship and injustice until the arrival of her fairy prince.

Thus the fairy rings which are often to be met with on the Sussex downs are known as hag-tracks, from the belief that "they are caused by hags and witches, who dance there at midnight."

Come and see that lovely creeper I told you of; and when you have admired it hanging from the decayed trunk of the old tree that supports it, you shall help me to remove it to your bower, where it will be the fairest flower that grows, except the little fairy queen herself.' Henrich caught his sister's hand, and kissing her playfully, attempted to draw her from the bower.

Each one shines in the water, with a soft yet strong light, like fairy lamps afloat in the sea.

Her fairy bower was a bank, where grew wild thyme, cowslips, and sweet violets, under a canopy of woodbine, musk-roses, and eglantine.

Therefore the fairy world or the giant world, or the wood full of dwarfs and witches' houses, is as real to them, and as acceptable, as any part of life.

Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.

At first the world of fairy lore may satisfy him, later comes the life of the undying spirit, but the two are continuous.

And in slumber did I have speech with her in dreams, and a strange happiness about me, and all seeming to be touched by fairy-light, and freed from the sorrow of life.

Floracita's fairy form and airy motions were scarcely less fascinating.

They listened to the story of cotton-mills as fairy dreams, exclaiming: "How can iron spin, weave, and print?

For a long time he suffered from "the falling sickness," owing to the long journeys which he was forced to make, night by night, with the fairy folk on one of his own cabbage stumps.

In the mournful silence of midnight air You hear on its stately and winding stair The echoes of fairy feet.

He puzzled his brain for weeks to discover how this fairy gift had ever come to him, but he was happier in its possession than he had ever been before in all his life.

"There is going to be a fairy play in it.

Thus the delicate white flowers of the wood-sorrel are known in Wales as "fairy bells," from a belief once current that these tiny beings were summoned to their moonlight revels and gambols by these bells.

The floating fairy vision had given such exquisite pleasure, that all had been absorbed in watching its variations.

"Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania," said the fairy king.