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Some folks believe that in such weather the Pixies come abroad, as they do at night, to mislead travelers who have lost their way; and, indeed, the clifftop lies not a hundred yards in front of you." "Oh, you think I was misled by a bad fairy, do you?" returned Richard, in an amused and bantering tone. "Well, at all events, I have now met with a good one; and may I ask what name she goes by?"
'No dog, no man, is the rule about here, when it comes to coppice work, continued young de Whichehalse; there is not a man would dare work there, without a dog to scare the pixies. 'There is a big young fellow upon this farm, Carver Doone muttered sulkily, 'with whom I have an account to settle, if ever I come across him. He hath a cursed spite to us, because we shot his father.
"But I'll tell you a pretty little story the Awkward Man told us told me tonight. He was walking in his garden as we went by, looking at his tulip beds. His tulips are up ever so much higher than ours, and I asked him how he managed to coax them along so early. And he said HE didn't do it it was all the work of the pixies who lived in the woods across the brook.
All around, the sides of the dell rose up, covered with a thick growth of wood and copse. It was a lovely spot in all truth, but lonely to the verge of desolation. Cuthbert dimly remembered having heard fragments of legends respecting a pixies' dell in the heart of the forest a dell avoided by all, for that no man who ventured in came forth alive.
In popular language they are known by many names fairies, pixies, elves, brownies, peris, djinns, trolls, satyrs, fauns, kobolds, imps, goblins, good people, etc. some of these titles being applied only to one variety, and others indiscriminately to all. Their forms are many and various, but most frequently human in shape and somewhat diminutive in size.
So said Joanna, standing before Cuthbert in the pixies' dell, her hand upon the low stone wall, her tall figure drawn up to its full height. She had been looking thoughtfully down into the sparkling water, which was now filling the well as of old, whilst Cuthbert told his tale with graphic power.
She gathered the little madcap into her arms for one second, then taking the witch-like face in both hands kissed each flushed cheek as she said: "I sometimes think you claim kinship with the pixies, you are half a witch. So you accept the bargain? Good! Have all the fun you wish but don't burn the house down."
Fortified by this conviction, and determined to wait no longer, he now came to see Phoebe. Within the sheltering arms of the Pixies' Parlour he kissed her, pressed her against his wet velveteen jacket, then sat down under the rocks beside her. "You 'm comed wi' the sun, dear Will." "Ay the weather breaks. I hope theer'll be a drop more water down the river bimebye. You got my letter all right?"
"What comes, Lord," he said, whispering; "see yonder?" He pointed across the bare hillside, and I looked but saw nothing. "I saw nought," I said. "Is it unlucky to speak of the place?" "I saw somewhat leap from yonder rock," he whispered; "it went behind that other." Plainly the man was terrified, and I asked him what he feared. "The good folk, Lord." "Pixies?
The Pixies are said to be very fond of pure water. There is a story of two servant-maids at Tavistock who used to leave them a bucket of water, into which the Pixies dropped silver pennies. Once it was forgotten, and the Pixies came up into the girls' bedroom, and made a noise about the neglect.
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