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The Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North Cornwall

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Chapters

8. Part 8

'It is the colour of life at last,' said the ancient dame, gazing at it with her wonderful bright eyes; 'and another spell loosened to the witch's undoing,' she muttered, half t...

2. Part 2

'There was nobody on the beach except those little Dark Men searching for this purse and Farmer Vivian,' said Gerna. 'Farmer Vivian is a great big man, and lives up at Pentire G...

7. Part 7

'I gave her a piece of thunder-and-lightning [37] and sent her to Chapel Stile to see if the waves were breaking on the Doombar,' answered the witch, knocking the ashes out of h...

4. Part 4

Gerna had but dim recollections of what followed afterwards: she only knew she was led in great state by 'Dinky Farmer Vivian' on the one side, and her Wee Lady on the other, do...

5. Part 5

Tom declared it had in some mysterious way to do with the little creature's welfare, and that it was a kind of conscience--a Small People's conscience, perhaps. But Joan said sh...

9. Part 9

It flew on beside her, and Betty was so taken up with watching it that she did not notice when she got up to Crackrattle that a dozen other fairy-like creatures were flying over...

6. Part 6

The miner went on his way to Ding Dong, and Ninnie-Dinnie seated herself on a bed of wild thyme close to where the hare had disappeared, and began calling very gently, but with...

3. Part 3

So occupied was she with looking into the purses, and asking herself whether she ever could take the poor little imprisoned fairy across the bog country that night--for she knew...

10. Part 10

'That explains my being caught in a net!' cried the little creature, with a sigh of relief. 'I do not mind so much now--that is, if you will put me back into the pool. You will...

1. Part 1

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11. Part 11

It was the spring of the year, and the spring was late, and there were as yet no carmine buds on the apple trees, but their upper branches were misty with the silvery green of b...