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Quotation from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats (editor)

“There was once a poor man who lived in the fertile glen of Aherlow, at the foot of the gloomy Galtee mountains, and he had a great hump on his back:”

W. B. Yeats (editor) (spoken by Narrator (T. Crofton Croker))

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Trooping Fairies, The Legend of Knockgrafton (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text))

Portrait of W. B. Yeats (editor)

The opening of the story of Lusmore, whose gentleness wins the fairies' favor.

Citation: "There was once a poor man who lived in the fertile glen of Aherlow, at the foot of the gloomy Galtee mountains, and he had a great hump on his back:" — W. B. Yeats (editor), Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Trooping Fairies, The Legend of Knockgrafton (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text)). (id fairy-and-folk-tales-of-the-irish-peasantry-q5)

Portrait: William Butler Yeats by George Charles Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.

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