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Title: Irish Fairy Tales

Editor: W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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IRISH FAIRY TALES

Edited

With an Introduction

by

W. B. YEATS

Author of 'The Wanderings of Oisin,' Etc.

Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats

[Illustration: "PLAYING AWAY ON THE PIPES AS MERRILY AS IF NOTHING HAD
HAPPENED." (_Page_ 48.)]

London
T. Fisher Unwin
1892

_WHERE MY BOOKS GO._

_All the words that I gather,
And all the words that I write,
Must spread out their wings untiring,
And never rest in their flight,
Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,
And sing to you in the night,
Beyond where the waters are moving,
Storm darkened or starry bright._

_W. B. YEATS._

LONDON, _January 1892_.

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

LAND AND WATER FAIRIES

THE FAIRIES' DANCING-PLACE 13

THE RIVAL KEMPERS 17

THE YOUNG PIPER 32

A FAIRY ENCHANTMENT 49

TEIGUE OF THE