Brownies and Bogles

Brownies and Bogles is by Louise Imogen Guiney. The contents list names What Fairies Were and What They Did, Puck; and Poets' Fairies, and The Passing of the Little People, among others. The text says fairies had their followers and votaries from early times, and that nothing in the Bible hints that they were known among the heathens with whom the Israelites warred. The text says a whirlwind of dust was thought by the peasantry in Ireland to betoken the presence of fairies going a journey, so they lifted their hats gallantly and said, "God speed you, gentlemen!"

The text says the German Hempelman laughed a great deal, and that the jolly German Kobold had a laugh which filled his throat and could be heard a mile away. The laugh of Master Robin is said to have sometimes foreboded trouble and death to people, which Hempelman's never did. The text says it is pretty clear that the restless people, as the Scotch called them, are at rest, and clean quit of this world.