hommybeg

Updated: July 16, 2026

But what it best pleases him to remember are the times when, seated in the ingle-nook, he used to listen to his grandmother telling fairy stories, as she sat at her black oak spinning-wheel, bending low over the whirling yarn. "Hommybeg" it was a pet name she had given to him "Hommybeg," she would say, "I will tell you of the fairies."

- McClure's Magazine December, 1895