found her darling unscathed the next moment. I remember also hearing that the strange child was as old as the grandfather of the one that had been lost."--"Celtic Folk-Lore" by Sir J. Rhys. There are many such stories in different parts of Wales and Scotland, and in both countries Fairies were believed to have a fatal admiration for lovely children, and credited with stealing them, especially unbaptized infants. A Welsh poet thus sings:-- "Llawer plentyn teg aeth ganddynt, Pan y cym'rynt helynt hir; Oddiar anwyl dda rieni, I drigfanau difri dir. The Rev. Elias Owen's translation of the above is as follows:-- "Many a lovely child they've taken, When long and bitter was the pain; From their parents, loving, dear, To the Fairies' dread domain." Another popular mode of treatment resorted to in order to reclaim children from the Fairies, and to get rid of ugly changelings was as follows:--The mother was to carry the changeling to a river, and when at the brink, the wizard who accompanied her was to cry out:-- "Crap ar y wrach"-- (A grip on the hag.) and the mother was to respond:-- "Rhy hwyr gyfraglach"-- (Too late decrepit one); Then the mother was to throw the changeling into the river, and then returning home, where she would find her own child safe and sound. It was believed that the Fairies were particularly busy in exchanging children on St. John's Eve. HOW TO DETECT CHANGELINGS. One way of finding out whether children were Changelings or not was to listen to them speaking. If suspected children were heard speaking things above the understanding of children, it was considered a proof that they were changelings. This was a wide-spread belief in Wales. Fairies did not always come to steal children, however, for they were believed in some places to enter the houses at night to dance and sing until the morning, and leave on the hearth-stone a piece of money as a reward behind them, should they find the house clean; but should it be dirty, they came to punish the servant girl. The good Fairies known as "Bendith y Mamau," were supposed to rock the infant's cradle and sweep and clean the house whilst the tired mother slept. And one way of securing their good luck was to leave a little milk for them upon the kitchen table at night. FAIRY MONEY. An old man named Evan Morris, Goginan, informed me that a farmer in the Vale of Rheidol one day found a sixpence on the top of a gate-post. On the next day he found a shilling there, and on the day after two shillings, the sum was doubled every day till the man was beginning to get rich. At last, however, the farmer told his family or his friends about his good luck, and after this he got no more money, as the Fairies were offended that he did not keep the thing secret. FAIRY MOTHERS AND HUMAN MIDWIVES.