Produced by Chris Curnow, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: THE LITTLE "NECK" IN THE SWEDISH RIVER.] BROWNIES AND BOGLES BY LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Author of Songs at the Start Goose-Quill Papers The White Sail _Fifty Illustrations by Edmund H Garrett_ BOSTON D LOTHROP COMPANY FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY D. LOTHROP COMPANY. PRESSWORK BY BERWICK & SMITH, BOSTON. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. WHAT FAIRIES WERE AND WHAT THEY DID 11 CHAPTER II. FAIRY RULERS 22 CHAPTER III. THE BLACK ELVES 33 CHAPTER IV. THE LIGHT ELVES 46 CHAPTER V. DEAR BROWNIE 63 CHAPTER VI. OTHER HOUSE-HELPERS 79 CHAPTER VII. WATER-FOLK 96 CHAPTER VIII. MISCHIEF-MAKERS 109 CHAPTER IX. PUCK; AND POETS' FAIRIES 123 CHAPTER X. CHANGELINGS 133 CHAPTER XI. FAIRYLAND 146 CHAPTER XII. THE PASSING OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE 159 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. The little river-neck of Sweden _Frontis._ "God speed you, gentlemen!" 16 The Neapolitan fairy 25 The elf-monarch who was made court-fool 29 The Isle of Rügen Dwarfs that give presents to children 31 The Dwarf that borrowed the silk gown 35 The Black Dwarfs of Rügen planning mischief 38 The Troll's children 40 A Coblynau 42 "I can't stay any longer!" 45 An elle-maid of Denmark 48 Bertha, the White Lady 49 Some Greek fairies 51 An elf-traveller 58 Brownie's delight was to do domestic service 65 Brownie relishes his bowl of cream 70 All that Pück demanded 73 "Wag-at-the-Wa'" 75 An Irish Cluricaune 84 Japanese children and Brownies 86 A little Fir-Darrig 87 The persistent Kobold of Köpenick 93 Mer-folk 98 The old Nix near Ghent 100 The work of the Nickel 101