Excerpt from Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales: Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men

"Know"st thou not the little path

That winds about the Ferny brae?

That is the road to bonnie Elfland,

Where thou and I this night maun gae." Thos. The Rhymer.

As the title of this story-book may possibly suggest that the tales are old fairy tales told afresh, it seems well to explain that this is not so.

Except for the use of common "properties" of Fairy Drama, and a scrupulous endeavour to conform to tradition in local colour and detail, the stories are all new.

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