FOLK TALES OF BREFFNY BY B. HUNT MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1912 INTRODUCTION Many of the stories in this volume were told by an old man who said he had more and better learning nor the scholars. "The like of them," he declared, "do be filled with conceit out of books, and the most of it only nonsense; 'tis myself has the real old knowledge was handed down from the ancient times." The spread of education and cheap literature robbed him of audience: the boys read of adventure by land and sea, the girls interested themselves in the fate of heroes with marble-white complexion and coal-black moustache. But it happened that the old man took a contract to break stones f…
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