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or mid wind. Those who are need to these journeys take care to choose the middle eourse; for, should any one unused to such things choose to go above wind, he will be borne so high as to despair of ever alighting again on the earth; and any ignorant wight who prefers to be carried below wind is dragged through all the brambles and briers that they ean find. A lawyer with a broken nose, and otherwise disfigured, continues the learned doetor, used to relate in my hearing, when a boy, of such having been his lot, and which he bore the marks, and was consequently called Y Trwyn or ‘the Nosy.’ This I remember had such an effeet upon me, that if I walked in a mist, I took good eare to walk on the grass, in ease there should be need to catch hold of a blade of it, which the fairies had not the power to break.
Such being the pranks of Welsh fairies, it is not to be wondered at that the valiant Sir John Falstaff should feel so partieularly dismayed at discovering one in eompany with the wiekedly disposed elves of Herne’s Oak. (Merry Wives of Windsor, Aet V. seene 5) ‘Heavens defend me,’ exclaims the knight, ‘from that Welsh fairy, lest she transform me into a pieee of eheese!'
The young eouple, whose happiness would doubtless have been destroyed by the little man but for Billy MacDaniel's pious exclamation, are probably the identieal pair whose eourtship is as particularly detailed in a popular song, of which the annexed verse may serve as a specimen.
'Young Darby Riley,
He approached my slyly,
And with a smile he
Unto me cried,
