Menges Jeff A. - Rackhams Fairies, Elves and Goblins: More than 80 Full-Color Illustrations

These fairy mountains

A curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.

There was one who seemed to be the commander.

They quaffed their liquor in profound silence.

The sleep of Rip Van Winkle.

The Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by strange beings.

The Kaatsberg or Catskill mountains have always been a region of fable.

The Indians considered them the abode of spirits.

They were ruled by an old squaw who hung up the new moons in the skies and cut up the old ones into stars.

If displeased, she would brew up clouds as black as ink, sitting in the midst of them like a bottle-bellied spider in the midst of its web: and when these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys!

In the very spot where Dan had stood as Puck they saw a small, brown, broad-shouldered, pointy-eared person with a snub nose, slanting blue eyes, and a grin that ran right across his freckled face.

Go! she says, Go with my Leave an Goodwill.

The Pool of Tears

Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing here?

If Orpheus first produced the Waltz

Theys such very odd heads and such very odd tales

... the moon, like to a silver bow New-bent in heaven

And now they never meet in grove or green, By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen But they do square

Fairies, away!
We shall chide downright, if I longer stay

Come, now a roundel

Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings

To make my small elves coats

One aloof stand sentinel

I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid