Arthur Hears The Fairies

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A man, Arthur, was walking along the road one evening when he heard behind him a voice saying, ‘Tack Arthur, tack Arthur.’ ‘No,’ said another voice, ‘No, he hiz a red caip, tack it.’ Arthur knew his danger, and took to his heels at once. Gregor, Walter ‘Stories of Fairies from Scotland’, The Folk-Lore Journal 1 (1883), 55-58 at 57

 

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