My own fairy book : namely certain Chronicles of Pantouflia, as notably the adventures of Prigio, prince of that country, and of his son Ricardo, with an excerpt from the Annals of Scotland, as touching Ker of Fairnilee, his sojourn with the Queen of Faery (1903)
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, Browne, Gordon, 1858-1932, ill, Scott, T., ill, Lemann, E. A., ill · New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 271
would soon be driven into thehouse. Then they sat by the nursery fire;and those were almost the pleasantest hours,for the old nurse would tell them old Scotchstories of elves and fairies, and sing them oldsongs. Jean would crawl close to Randal andhold his hand, for fear the Red Etin, or some 254… … really nothing but the shadow of the wheelthat the old nurse drove with her foot—birr,/„>,—and that whirred and rattled as she spanand told her tale. For people span their cloth THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE. 255 at home then, instead of buying it from shops;and the old nurse was a great woman…
Fairy tales
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