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with very unsatisfactory results. The miss 

 still takes place, ruining one, and letting off 

 another ; but nobody can satisfy themselves 

 thoroughly that the Friday has anything to 

 do with it." 



" What have the fairies to do with Fri- 

 day?" asked the Squire; u in one way or 

 other, that day seems to be worked up with 

 much of their history." 



" Why, they have nothing to do with it," 

 said the Parson ; " and that is the cause of 

 all their woe and all their mischief. There 

 is a tradition respecting the fairy tribes so 

 universal, that it would really seem as if it 

 had some foundation to rest upon. It be- 

 longs not only to the Irish fairy and her 

 sister in the Highlands of Scotland, but to 

 the Cornish Pixie, and the German Undine 

 and Gnome, and the Scandinavian Nyssen 

 and his brethren ; and, what is more sin- 

 gular, to the Persian Peri also. In the war 

 in heaven, at the rebellion of the angels, it 

 is said that the particular circle of angels 

 which belonged to our earth stood neuter, 

 and, consequently, at the final victory, they 

 had neither earned the blessedness of the 

 victorious host, nor did they partake in the 



