66 GLENOWEN, OR THE

without passing it, and had frequently
stopped in the evening with Charles,
and some little girls, who were her
schoolfellows, to play and dance round
it, as the fairies were said to do, often
wishing for a sight of these wonderful
little elves, whom she almost believed
she should sometime see. No wonder
then that Rosa should have believed in
the existence of fairies, interwoven, as
they were, with the traditions of her
country She had been told also, that
there are two kinds, one henevolent,
the other malignant ; and that rewards
and punishments were awarded by them
to the merits or demerits of those with
whom they interfered. Probably from
the supposed supernatural agency of
this extraordinary race of beings, these
stones are said to have acquired the

peculiar