![]() ![]() In a little while, for he has gotten a consumptive appearance of late, he will be covered over decently in his grave, and another will grow, old and much respected, in his place, and never be heard of down there, and after him another and another and another. ![]() "In every house over there," said the pilot, pointing to his native village of Rosses, "there are several." Certainly that now old and much respected dogmatist, the Spirit of the Age, has in no manner made his voice heard down there. ![]() "Indeed, they don't like to see them at all," she answered, "for they always bring bad weather." "Here is a man who believes in ghosts," said a foreign sea-captain, pointing to a pilot of my acquaintance. "Do the fishermen along here know anything of the mermaids?" I asked a woman of a village in County Dublin. "Amn't I annoyed with them," was the answer. ![]() "Have you ever seen a fairy or such like?" I asked an old man in County Sligo. "When Tom came home from labour, Or Cis to milking rose, Then merrily, merrily went their tabor, And merrily went their toes."īut now, in the times of James, they had all gone, for "they were of the old profession," and "their songs were Ave Maries." In Ireland they are still extant, giving gifts to the kindly, and plaguing the surly. Corbett, Bishop of Oxford and Norwich, lamented long ago the departure of the English fairies. KINGS, QUEENS, PRINCESSES, EARLS, ROBBERS-ĭr. NEW YORK: 3 EAST 14th STREET.Ī Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald ![]()
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