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" Something like the fine traits in the 

 Irish character," said the Squire. "By the 

 way, I wonder that your friends the fairies 

 are not thoroughly disgusted with so wretched 

 a state of things, and do not make up their 

 minds at once, take their passage in some 

 of the emigrant ships, and, leaving their 

 desecrated homes, start off for America like 

 the natives." 



" The United States would he a nice place 

 for fairies, would it not ?" said the Parson ; 

 " such poetic creatures could not so much as 

 breathe in its utilitarian atmosphere. What- 

 ever they may be, depend upon it no class of 

 fairies are republicans. Really, however, I 

 do not know what the poor things would do, 

 were it not for the old raths, or Danish forts ; 

 these are their last retreats, but there Super- 

 stition holds out stoutly for them still/' 



" There are a good many of these raths 

 about here," said the Squire : " what have 

 the Danes to do with them?" 



"Little enough, I believe," said the Par- 

 son ; " but have you not observed that every 

 thing old, ruined, disused, or forgotten, on 

 these coasts, is ascribed to the Danes ? Ask 

 that fellow who is catching Jenkins down 



