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    FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND.

    BY

    T. CROFTON CROKER.


    A New Edition.

    WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS,
    AFTER DESIGNS OF THE AUTHOR AND OTHERS.


    "Come l'araba Fenice
    Che ci sia, ognun lo dice;
    Dove sia, nessun lo sa."--METASTASIO.


    Philadelphia:
    LEA AND BLANCHARD.
    1844.




PREFACE.


The erudite Lessing styles a preface "the history of a book." Now,
though there can be no necessity