Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Mornings at Matlock, Vol. 3 of 3
Many years have passed since I happened to be a temporary visitor beneath the hospit able roof of one of the better sort of farmers, in the county of Cork, during the Midsummer holidays. As usual, I there indulged in sarcasm against the credulity of the country. One evening, in particular, I was not a little tenacious in laughing at the very existence of the fairy folk and, as sometimes happens, ridicule accomplished more than argument could have effected. My hosts could bear any thing in the way of argument-at least of argument such as mine - they could even suffer their favourite legends and theories about the fairies to be abused but to laugh at them that was an act of unkindness which quite passed their comprehension, and grievously taxed their patience.
My host was quite in despair, and almost in anger at my boyish jokes upon his fairy-legends.
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