had seen before; new pastimes were continually invented to charm him, but one day his hopes were blasted, and all his happiness fled in an instant. Possessing that innate curiosity nearly common to all, he, like our first parents transgressed, and plunged his hand into the well, when the fishes instantly disappeared, and, putting the water to his mouth, he heard a confused shriek run through the garden: in an instant after, the palace and all vanished away, and to his horror, he found himself in the very place where he first entered the ring, and the scenes around, with the same sheep grazing, were just as he had left them. He could scarcely believe himself, and hoped again, that he was in the magnificent fairy castle; he looked around, but the scene was too well known; his senses soon returned to their proper action, and his memory proved that, although he thought he had been absent so many years, he had been so only so many minutes. This tale bears a strange contrast as regards the time the boy thought he was away, to most of our fairy tales which represent those who had the pleasure of being with fairies as imagining they had been dancing only a few minutes, when they had been away for years. FAIRY MUSIC AND DANCING. The Rev. Z. M. Davies, Vicar of Llanfihangel Genau'r Glyn, told me that he once heard an old man in the Vale of Aeron saying that when he was out late one night, he heard the Fairies singing, and that their music was so delightful that he listened to them for hours; and we find from many of the Fairy Tales that one of their chief occupation in their nightly revels was singing and dancing, and that they often succeeded in inducing men through the allurements of music to join their ranks. The beautiful old Welsh Air, "Toriad y Dydd" (Dawn of Day) is supposed to have been composed by the Fairies, and which they chanted just as the pale light in the east announced the approach of returning day. The following "Can y Tylwyth Teg," or the Fairies' song, was well-known once in Wales, and these mythical beings were believed to chant it whilst dancing merrily on summer nights. "O'r glaswellt glan a'r rhedyn mân, Gyfeillion dyddan, dewch. 'E ddarfu'r nawn--mae'r lloer yn llawn, Y nos yn gyflawn gewch; O'r chwarau sydd ar dwyn y dydd, I'r Dolydd awn ar daith, Nyni sydd lon, ni chaiff gerbron, Farwolion ran o'n gwaith. "Canu, canu, drwy y nos, Dawnsio, dawnsio, ar waen y rhos, Yn ngoleuni'r lleuad dlos: Hapus ydym ni! Pawb o honom sydd yn llon, Heb un gofid dan ei fron: Canu, dawnsio, ar y ton-- Dedwydd ydym ni!" "From grasses bright, and bracken light, Come, sweet companions, come, The full moon shines, the sun declines. We'll spend the night in fun; With playful mirth, we'll trip the earth, To meadows green let's go We're full of joy, without alloy, Which mortals may not know.