The Potato Supper

“The Potato Supper.” The book of elves and fairies for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading, Frances Jenkins Olcott, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin; 1918, pp. 15-19.

Tale Summary One night, a troop of fairies was dancing together under the moon, when one of them said something which made them all scamper away and hide: “Cease! Cease with your humming! Here’s an end to your mumming! By my smell I can tell That a priest is now...