_How Ten Children Became Fairies._--'Our Lord, in the days when He
walked the earth, chanced one day to approach a cottage in which lived a
woman with twenty children. Feeling ashamed of the size of her family,
she hid half of them from the sight of her divine visitor. On His
departure she sought for the hidden children in vain; they had become
fairies and had disappeared.'
IN PEMBROKESHIRE; AT THE PENTRE EVAN CROMLECH
Our Pembrokeshire witness is a maiden Welshwoman, sixty years old, who
speaks no English, but a university graduate, her nephew, will act as
our interpreter. She was born and has lived all her life within sight
of the famous Pentre Evan Cromlech, in the home of her ancestors, which
is so ancient that after six centuries of its known existence further
record of it is lost. In spite of her sixty years, our witness is as
active as many a city woman of forty or forty-five. Since her girlhood
she has heard curious legends and stories, and, with a more than
ordinary interest in the lore of her native country, has treasured them
all in her clear and well-trained memory. The first night, while this
well-stored memory of hers gave forth some of its treasures, we sat in
her own home, I and my friend, her nephew, on one side in a
chimney-seat, and she and her niece on the other side in another,
exposed to the cheerful glow and warmth of the fire. When we had
finished that first night it was two o'clock, and there had been no
interruption to the even flow of marvels and pretty legends. A second
night we spent likewise. What follows now is the result, so far as we
are concerned with it:--
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