The Baby-farmer
Old Kaddy was a baby-farmer, and one day she went to the woods to gather sticks for her fire, and whilst she was gathering the sticks she found a piece of gold,
Welsh Fairy-Tales And Other Stories
The Pastor’s Nurse
My father was still very young when he came to the ministry and that he was named pastor in Hambach, village of Lorraine. The place was big enough,
The Fisherman of Shetland
There was a snug little cove in one of the Shetland Islands. At the head of the cove stood a fishing hamlet, containing some twenty huts. In these huts lived the fisher-folk,
Eva’s Luck
As black-eyed, black-haired Eva Sauvet was walking one day in Jersey she saw a lozenge-marked snake, whereupon she ran away frightened.
John O’Groats
He was an old seaman, with weather-beaten face and black eyes, that had looked upon many lands and many sights.
Billy Duffy and the Devil
Billy Duffy was an Irishman, a blacksmith, and a drunkard. He had the Keltic aversion from steady work, and stuck to his forge only long enough to get money for drink;