text: " In _Auvergne_ Miss Costello has just now learned how the men and the Fairies anciently lived upon the friendliest footing nigh one another: how the _knowledge_ and _commodious use_ of the _Healing Springs_ was owed by the former to these Good Neighbours: how of yore the powerful sprites by rending athwart a huge rocky mound opened an _innocuous channel_ for _the torrent_ which used with its overflow to lay desolate arable ground and pasturage: how they were looked upon as being in a general sense _the protectors_ against harm of the country: and in fine how the two orders of neighbours lived in long and happy communion of kind offices with one another; until upon one unfortunate day the ill-renowned freebooter Aymerigot Marcel with his ruffianly men-at-arms having approached by stealth from his near-lying hold stormed the romantically seated rock-mansion of the bountiful pigmies: who scared and in anger forsook the land