Ii8 WHAT I HAVE SEEN WHILE FISHING 



11 Shure and it's not aisy to be level with the 

 loikes of him and his queer spache. It's single and 

 not married English wizards '11 be," came from 

 roguish, twinkling-eyed Tim More. " Why not 

 married?" asked I. His reply was, "It's meself 

 was thinking he would be unable to put his co- 

 medher on the colleens with talk like that." 



I felt curious as to the meaning of this strange- 

 sounding word " comedher," and was told by Tim, 

 in answer to my questioning, " It's just whispering 

 sweet words, with the sweet side of yer tongue, in 

 the colleen's ear until they become so sweet to her 

 that she is deaf and blind to other bhoys." 



Tim was evidently romantically inclined, so I 

 asked him the question that had long been itching 

 on my tongue, " And what of your fairies ? " 



" Ach, it's fairies we have in plenty, and mighty 

 powerful they be. Our leprechaun is the fairies' 

 shoemaker and the guardian of untold hidden 

 treasure, and can bring a power of luck to whom 

 he will. It's O'Donnell here will tell you how 

 powerful our fairies are." 



After some pressing O'Donnell said, " Well, 

 thin, whin I was over at Arranmore I saw an 

 ould man who had been lost for nine days and 

 nights, and who, after much searching for, was 

 generally supposed to have fallen into the say. 

 Early one morning, howiver, he appeared again, 

 and quite willingly explained that he had been 

 tricked by a fairy, and had been kept a prisoner 



