_Going to the 'Gentry' through Death, Dreams, or Trance._--John O'Conway, one of the most reliable citizens of Upper Rosses Point, offers the following testimony concerning the 'gentry':--'In olden times the _gentry_ were very numerous about _forts_ and here on the Greenlands, but rarely seen. They appeared to be the same as any living men. When people died it was said the _gentry_ took them, for they would afterwards appear among the _gentry_.' 'We had a ploughman of good habits who came in one day too late for his morning's work, and he in excuse very seriously said, "May be if you had travelled all night as much as I have you wouldn't talk. I was away with the _gentry_, and save for a lady I couldn't have been back now. I saw a long hall full of many people. Some of them I knew and some I did not know. The lady saved me by telling me to eat no food there, however enticing it might be."' 'A young man at Drumcliffe was _taken_ [in a trance state], and was with the _Daoine Maithe_ some time, and then got back. Another man, whom I knew well, was haunted by the _gentry_ for a long time, and he often went off with _them_' (apparently in a dream or trance state). _'Sidhe' Music._--The story which now follows substantiates the testimony of cultured Irish seers that at Lower Rosses Point the music of the _Sidhe_ can be heard:--'Three women were gathering shell-fish, in the month of March, on the lowest point of the strand (Lower Rosses or Wren Point) when they heard the most beautiful music. They set to work to dance with it, and danced themselves sick. They then thanked the invisible musician and went home.' THE TESTIMONY OF A COLLEGE PROFESSOR Our next witness is the Rev. Father ----, a professor in a Catholic college in West Ireland, and most of his statements are based on events which happened among his own acquaintances and relatives, and his deductions are the result of careful investigation:-- _Apparitions from Fairyland._--'Some twenty to thirty years ago, on the borders of County Roscommon near County Sligo, according to the firm belief of one of my own relatives, a sister of his was _taken_ by the fairies on her wedding-night, and she appeared to her mother afterwards as an apparition. She seemed to want to speak, but her mother, who was in bed at the time, was thoroughly frightened, and turned her face to the wall. The mother is convinced that she saw this apparition of her daughter, and my relative thinks she might have saved her. 'This same relative who gives it as his opinion that his sister was _taken_ by the fairies, at a different time saw the apparition of another relative of mine who also, according to similar belief, had been _taken_ by the fairies when only five years old. The child-apparition appeared beside its living sister one day while the sister was going from the yard into the house, and it followed her in. It is said the child was _taken_ because she was such a good girl.'