Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Brian Foley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. EDITED AND SELECTED BY W. B. YEATS. THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD. LONDON AND FELLING-ON-TYNE. NEW YORK: 3 EAST 14TH STREET. INSCRIBED TO MY MYSTICAL FRIEND, G. R. CONTENTS. THE TROOPING FAIRIES-- PAGE The Fairies 3 Frank Martin and the Fairies 5 The Priest's Supper 9 The Fairy Well of Lagnanay 13 Teig O'Kane and the Corpse 16 Paddy Corcoran's Wife 31 Cusheen Loo 33 The White Trout; A Legend of Cong 35 The Fairy Thorn 38 The Legend of Knockgrafton 40 A Donegal Fairy 46 CHANGELINGS-- The Brewery of Egg-shells 48 The Fairy Nurse 51 Jamie Freel and the Young Lady 52 The Stolen Child 59 THE MERROW-- The Soul Cages 61 Flory Cantillon's Funeral 75 THE SOLITARY FAIRIES-- The Lepracaun; or, Fairy Shoemaker 81 Master and Man 84 Far Darrig in Donegal 90 The Piper and the Puca 95 Daniel O'Rourke 97 The Kildare Pooka 105 How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee 108 A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald 112 The Banshee of the MacCarthys 113 GHOSTS-- A Dream 129 Grace Connor 130 A Legend of Tyrone 132 The Black Lamb 134 The Radiant Boy 136 The Fate of Frank M'Kenna 139