and cost her the eye she first saw him with. Mr. Brand mentions his having met with a man, who said he had seen one that had seen fairies. Truth, he adds, is to come at, in most cases; none he believes ever came nearer to it, in this, than he has done. However that may be, the present editor cannot pretend to have been more fortunate. His informant related that an acquaintance, in Westmoreland, having a great desire, and praying earnestly to see a fairy, was told, by a friend, if not a fairy in disguise, that on the side of such a hill, at such a time of day, he should have a sight of one; and, accordingly, at the time and place appointed, "the hob goblin," in his own words, "stood before him in the likeness of a green-coat lad;" but, in the same instant, the spectators eye glancing, vanished into the hill. This, he said, the man told him.
The streets of Newcastle, says Mr. Brand, "were formerly (so vulgar tradition has it) haunted by a nightly guest, which appeared in the shape of a mastiff dog, &c. and terrified such as were afraid of shadows. I have heard," he adds, "when a boy, many stories concerning it." It is to be lamented that, as this gentleman was endeavouring to illustrate a very dull book, on this and similar subjects, he did not think it worth his while to make it a
