Thus, too, the late _Brillat-Savarin_, from a sprightly, acute, brilliant Belles-letteriste, turned, for an hour, honest antiquary, lets us know how, upon the southern bank of the Rhone, flowing out from Switzerland, in the narrowly-bounded and, when he first quitted it, yet hidden valley of his birth:--The FAIRIES--elderly, not beautiful, but benevolent unmarried ladies--kept, while time was, open school in THE GROTTO, which was their habitation, for the young girls of the vicinity, whom they taught--SEWING. 3. We go on to exemplifying--ELFIN _Frequentation of, and Settlement with,_ MAN. The Fairies are drawn into the houses and to the haunts of men by manifold occasions and impulses. They halt on a journey. They celebrate marriages. They use the implements of handicraft. They purchase at the Tavern--from the Shambles, or in open Market. They _steal_ from oven and field. They go through a house, blessing the rooms, the marriage-bed--and stand beside the unconscious cradle. They give dreams. They take part in the evening mirth. They pray in the churches. They seem to work in the mines. Drawn by magical constraint into the garden, they invite themselves within doors. They dance in the churchyard.[29] They make themselves the wives and the paramours of men; or the serviceable hobgoblin fixes himself, like a cat, in the house--once and for ever. We present traditions for illustrating some of these points, as they offer themselves to us. [Footnote 29: "Part fenced by man, part by the ragged steep That curbs a foaming brook, a GRAVE-YARD lies; The hare's best couching-place for fearless sleep! Where MOONLIT FAYS, far seen by credulous eyes, ENTER, IN DANCE!" WORDSWORTH.--_Sonnet upon an_ ABANDONED _Cemetery._] THEY HALT ON A JOURNEY. No. XXXV. _The Count of Hoia_.