The Fairies Of Merlin's Crag

Fairy-stories are always delightful but they gain an additional interest when they bear the stamp of the people among whom they circulated. This is certainly the case in Miss Grierson's books. Some, of course, are of the type common to most lands, but the majority are essentially Scottish. Miss Grierson has drawn them from all sources, folk-lore, minstrelsy, and legends. Elizabeth Wilson Grierson was the famous Scottish author which was best known by Children's Tales From Scottish Ballads (1906), Scotland (1907), Vivian's Lesson (1907), The Children's Book of Celtic Stories (1908), Scottish Fairy Book (1910), Canterbury (1910), St. Paul's (1910), Hereford (1911), Florence (1912) and Tales From Scottish Ballads (1916) and other interesting stories. The Fairies of Merlin's Crag by Elizabeth Grierson is a brief story about poor man who was a laborer in Lanark shire. He was a specialist in everything and could perform all odd jobs. One day his master ordered him to cast peats away of moorland that lay on certain part of the farm. Suddenly he saw a very smallest woman only about two feet height and ordered him to undo all he did. He wasn't afraid, he wasn't astonished at seeing the strange woman. He returned to his master and told his story of what happened to him at the moor. Master definitely didn't belive him and sent him again to finish his job...

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